Early on, I was a poor learner. I really was. The sort who liked to have books around me but couldn’t get through them. It wasn’t the...

Harry Nilsson’s song “One,” most famously covered in two distinct but perfect recordings by Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann (the latter...

I actually believe I first saw film footage of another monk setting himself on fire before I had even heard of Thích Quảng Đức, the...

I came of age going to the movies at the turn of the century. In 1999, I was finally old enough to see R-rated movies and my friend and I...

Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...