How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm After they've seen Paree' How ya gonna keep 'em away from Broadway Jazzin around and paintin' the town -Joe Young and Sam F. Fields Starting to feel a little melancholy after we wrapped up my last class in Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions. A couple of us exchanged contact information. Thirty-four days and we'll be loading up the Caddy and driving through the Holland Tunnel. Walking anywhere in Manhattan involves an elaborate gam

"The Triune God is the Revealer, the event of Revelation, and the effect of Revelation." — Karl Barth I am, again, hopelessly behind on schoolwork and work work this morning, so brevity is mandatory. Rather than babbling, I'll post a link below to a fairly extraordinary dialogue in the New York Times between Peter Wehner and David Bentley Hart, a theologian and philosopher who's spent a half century wrestling with the meaning of Christianity and the contradictions inherent i

I'm going where the sun keeps shining Through the pouring rain Going where the weather suits my clothes Banking off of the northeast winds Sailing on a summer breeze And skipping over the ocean like a stone -Fred Neil Late, busy, and not able to write a long one today. The dams I built in January to hold back the crush of my day job while I'm in NYC are starting to crumble a little, just in time for finals. Last Friday P and I decided to watch Midnight Cowboy , mostly to catc

So, yesterday Peg and I dragged our old selves up Second Avenue to church. We attended services on Easter Sunday up in Canandaigua, but before that it'd been awhile. Once one gets in the habit of not going to church, of reading the paper and having that second cup of coffee on Sunday mornings when one would otherwise be getting ready for services, it takes an act of will to make the journey, and I'm always a little hesitant about walking through the door and having all those