(This is a continuation of the tale, "White Mass", which can be found below.)

 

 

Although it had felt a nearly interminable day, with the earlier Mass and, after, the pressing of one sister and another against him in their perfected matronly embraces and the… Read full post »

 

The baby had been wanted.  Wanted in a way different from the want for the lady, he smiled at the word, in the sheer, not-quite-white blouse with the sprinkling of tiny tempting crystals and the black velvet (velveteen?)  - his mother would have known, and that was a conversa… Read full post »

She is really rather pretty in a full-faced, freshly-scrubbed way.  Discreetly made up and well-, yet modestly and moderately, dressed, she certainly looks like someone you'd want as a neighbor.  If I had met her when bringing a niece to public school, for example, my first impression would… Read full post »

 

 

 

In the summer of 2010, Moscow, where I live, was subjected to, I want to say a victim of, + 35 degree Celsius heat for nearly seven weeks.  Out-of-control peat fires circled the city as well for nearly as… Read full post »

Dear Readers:  Below are three links to some of the work produced by a wonderful site, www.thethirdjihad.com.  The middle film, which I beg readers to watch, is narrated by Dr. Zhuhdi Jasser, a devout American Muslim and the President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy… Read full post »

 

 

 

(Sakineh Ashtiani is facing the punishment of death by stoning in Iran)

 

The first stone will not fall short.

The orbs will bulge and then disgorge,

The planes will shift and slide misshapen,

Beige to pink, to purple, then… Read full post »

 

When Jacqueline Kennedy was first lady, she played hostess to, among others, people such as Pablo Casals, Leonard Bernstein, and William Styron.  (One of her most-remembered soirees was the dinner for all living Nobel laureates during the course of which President Kennedy quipped, “… Read full post »

 

 

Twice in the past week I have been awakened by the sounds of military vehicles moving slowly in simple procession down Novy Arbat, which is one of the main thoroughfares of Moscow and the street on which I live.  Both times they were, of course, on their way… Read full post »

 

 

In the United States, when the government and political opponents try to control what women do with their bodies  in terms of abortion – which, by the way, does affect at least one other nascent body – the Left does a “Tyranny” cry.  So… Read full post »

 

Selective mutism (SM) is a communication disorder in which a person, most often a child, who is normally capable of speech is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people.  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/917147-overview

 

by The Traveler

Lately I have been wrest… Read full post »