You may not have given much thought to rage, at least not until watching it be unleashed last Wednesday. I have known rage, as all of us have if we are honest about it. In the late 1960’s and early … [Read more...]
Proposed Software Update
SELF-CHALLENGE: Write a column that has nothing to do with the pandemic, politics, or my dog. Here we are on January 6, 2021. Today and hover boards once seemed impossibly futuristic. I can … [Read more...]
Hope Secularized: Super Power for Mortals
It is a very thin line between secular and sacred. In fact, there need not be anything at all separating them. If you have read even a few posts from subversivepreacher, then you know I am all about … [Read more...]
What Meatballs Have To Do With It
How to make meatballs round is a deep, philosophical question? Wegmans does it but make them at home and isn’t one side always a little flat? Turn them often of course, but still one side of that … [Read more...]
What’s in the silence
Google went silent worldwide Monday morning and everyone who has email through the tech monopoly went quiet. Although different kinds of quiet, I wonder which would bring more silence to the world, … [Read more...]
Rabia Goes to School
My dog, Rabia, has several new friends. She shares her lake with Olive, Honey, Skippy, Herald, Lucy, and Ellie. For a dog like Rabia, this is a happy abundance. Fortunately for their owners, Rabia … [Read more...]
Healing?
I do not know how to introduce this topic so that readers on the left and the right won’t immediately react by rejecting or embracing it as political. I would rather us take a deep breath and ponder … [Read more...]
The Amazing Complexity of Thanksgiving
What do feminism, war, political divisiveness, humanism versus Christian nationalism, Jefferson versus Lincoln, Mary had a little lamb, and the Finger Lakes have in common? Thanksgiving. On October … [Read more...]
Shrinking
For those who might be concerned, this photo is of a fake shrunken head at "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in Florida The life of the mind seems to be getting smaller as the pandemic throbs on. … [Read more...]
Sharing a Nation
Tracking our emotions in the wake of the election has been like searching through the rubble of a ruined home. There is the sharp hazard of broken glass, uncertainty about the structural integrity of … [Read more...]
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