The Verge of Jordan

Third Sunday in Easter On a rainy Sunday we visited a grad school professor of mine, Diane Mitchell and her husband Marko Gosar at thei...

Many of us, even those with little or no direct experience, are amused by the notion of nuns behaving badly.  The idea that religious siste...

Saturday in Easter Week By now you are probably sick unto death of references to the R.M.S. Titanic as we approach the centennial of he...

Thursday in Easter Week  "Have you ever wanted to take a young person's face gently in your hands, look into their eyes, and...

GOOD FRIDAY   She was going to be there at his end-- she who had been there with God at his beginning. She was his mother. She had fed him...

As part of Open House New York, I found out on a fluke that the TWA Flight Center at JFK would be accessible to the public for the first tim...

LABOR DAY Wow, it's been quite a little while since I've posted anything here.  I often think to myself that I would like to shar...

THIRTY years ago, my family and I flew a TWA 747 from JFK to Rome.  It was -- as far as I know -- my first time on a plane, and this was whe...