I feel very confused. Half of me is ecstatic, jubilant, elated, over the moon. The other half of me feels like someone just spat in my face.

 I want to share in the Obama victory. I really do. I wish I could have been out in the streets,… Read full post »

We had a mass on the hilltop
in the sky, a mass of Alps
at a monastery on the border

between Italy and Switzerland.
Deo gratias, father spoke
in tongues of ravines,

broke bread from the bark
of leaning larch trees. I, alone… Read full post »

Yesterday, I sat down over lunch with a friend and tried to have an intelligent discussion about Proposition 8. If you asked him, I'm sure he'd say we achieved that goal, but in my opinion, we failed miserably. Sadly, the fact that there was an abyss, not only between our beliefs,… Read full post »

How do you
use the word
emanate
in a sentence?
         No,
            you cannot say that
    the water emanates
    from a cup. Water
            spill… Read full post »

There has been lots of coverage lately regarding Elizabeth Dole's vicious attack ad, which calls her opponent, Kay Hagan, essentially a Godless American. While I agree that the ad is despicable and in many ways, an abomination, I have yet another bone to pick over the outcry against the ad itself.… Read full post »