Psychobabblings of a Middle Child

As a student in Catholic school I was taught the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Recently I found a reference to this prayer in a book I wa...

  And the Answer is...       Can a man be both sane and monstrous? Can reason and cruelty coexist?              According to author Lyra Cin...

 I had a desultory day yesterday unable to stick to anything I started. I’m on vacation - actually a staycation since I hadn’t expected to h...

 It has been a little more than six years since I published a blog post I called Oscar and Felix, a post in which I wrote about a friend of ...

It was Friday night, the beginning of a long weekend culminating with Martin Luther King Jr Day, so I decided to watch a movie. I chose a do...

   A friend told me recently about a movie too few people have seen, a movie about a man too few people have ever heard of. The film, The St...

  For the past year or two, I have had trouble reading. Not trouble reading, actually. Just trouble finding a book I wanted to finish. For t...