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Today I have been married for twenty-six years. My memories of the event are hazy,...

Some people are so interesting other people give them credit for witty things they did...

God is so good, He makes the necessary joyful. We must eat to live, but...

At nine or ten my pastor father (Father Father) talked to me about God and...

My Mother and I used to laugh at greeting cards that began: what is a...

There are no orcs in a real war. Humans fight and die in a war,...

From my London window, I see the problem of a border out of control and...

Verona is Juliet's home in my mind. Romeo is there too, but Juliet! It is...

European history turns the mind to tyranny, especially in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Easy to...

My greatest crimes against high culture are plain to all: Diet Coke, Disneyland, Packer football,...

Sitting in Saint Stephens cathedral in Vienna waiting for mass lifts me out of my...

The Abduction from the Seraglio is Mozart's message to America in the person of Constanze....

Prague is love. New York City is famously for lovers, but Prague is for love....

Magic Flute is mad beauty, but so beautiful that beauty is almost enough. The story...

And so it goes. If a person or idea dies in Slaughterhouse Five, the Ecclesiastes...

Go to Turkey and visit Pergamum, on the cities mentioned by Saint John in Revelation,...

Bugs Bunny by way of Chuck Jones will be my first thought if you tell...

"I love you," he said. "Oh no," she said, "I don't feel that way about...