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March 2017

March 29, 2017

I Think It’s Going To Rain Today

Broken windows and empty hallways, a pale dead moon and a sky streaked with gray....

March 20, 2017

What Silence Sounds Like

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of...

March 05, 2017

Sixty-One Years On

I've no wish to be living sixty years on Elton John Tomorrow is my birthday!...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

A Crooked Faith

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

I Was a Stranger

A bit over a year ago, in the midst of the Presidential campaign that no...

January 16, 2017

Gentle Drizzle

In the interdisciplinary program I teach in and used to direct, the first semester faculty...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

That Hopey Changey Thing

Although I was raised in the most non-liturgical version of Christianity imaginable, I love liturgy....

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Something Rather Than Nothing

One of the most reliable ways to deaden a lively conversation in class is to...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

The Joyful Owl

Just about seven years ago, on a beautiful summer morning very similar to the ones we...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Those Effing Blue Jays

It has been hot this week—low to mid-nineties with high humidity. I know, for those...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

An Introspective Day

In our three years in Milwaukee, our first years together as a married couple trying...

April 16, 2016

Red and Blue Bubbles

As Jeanne and I do various things in the house on Saturdays, we often have...

April 07, 2016

Adepto Ex Meus Visio

Jeanne and I are headed to Florida this evening to spend a week with family...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Blessed Is He Who Comes

Rodney Delasanta was one of best teachers and colleagues I ever had the privilege of...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

We Are More Than We Are

Although it often caused trouble and brought me grief during my primary and secondary education...

January 25, 2016

Give Us Barabbas

An annual musical fixture of my Baptist upbringing was the Easter Cantata. Each year on...

January 02, 2016

Goliath was a Wimp: Random Observations for the New Year

The first measurable winter precipitation of the season rolled through town last Monday night, on...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

An Aria as Lovely as a Tree

As Jeanne headed into Dunkin’ Donuts to purchase her customary large decaf French Vanilla with eight...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Hats Off!

In 1831, Robert Schumann published his very first review, in the form of an imaginary...

June 05, 2015

Divine Stalking

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you are awake Big Brother? The...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Colorblindness

When I was growing up in northeastern Vermont, the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury was a...

May 06, 2015

How I Know That I Am Getting Older

I recall once when I was barely thirty hearing my father describe himself as in...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Mulch in the Morning

It is the next-to-last day of April, and I think it is finally safe to...

April 22, 2015

Pleasure and Joy in the Work

As the end of the semester draws near and my upcoming sabbatical looms, I'm wondering...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Happy in Costa Rica

What is it about intentionally jerking people’s chains that is so satisfying? Every once in...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Bagpipes and Cats

Today is Saint Andrew's Sunday (which happens to fall this year on the actual Saint...

November 19, 2014

Celebrating Life

I recently submitted two grant proposals related to my sabbatical that will begin next July....

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Married to Beethoven

This coming Sunday my on-and-off opportunities to play the organ at the Episcopal church Jeanne...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

If I Were a Beer, or What I have learned about myself from Facebook

My sons learned early on that although I was generally a laid back and flexible...

July 23, 2014

Venn Mysticism

To what extent can clear thinking and logical analysis help untangle the complexities of trying...

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