"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with...

Neal : What's the flight situation? Del : Simple. There's no way on earth we're going to get out of here tonight. We'd have more luck...

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" -W.B. Yeats Two below zero when, before...

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only...

A late start, and nothing deep, meaningful or political here. Peg has today off, so we slept in, and are waiting now for the espresso...

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a...

" I did mostly good things, except light things on fire. " -Mark Hoppus, Blink-182 Seventeen and mostly clear out there, with a dusting...

"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real...

"The first wealth is health". -Ralph Waldo Emerson 1.13.25 Thirty-two and snowing lightly out there. Yes, that's a Bills flag out front...

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand...

Trying to keep this blog from dying of inactivity after finding myself swamped in work while trying to make the transition into solo...

Well, 6 January came and went, the Cheeto Messiah was certified as the winner of the election, and the husband of a Republican senator...

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -Seneca, via Semisonic in Closing Time Sitting at the gate at KECP, waiting...

“what happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can...

"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time...

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny." - David Hume Relishing the irony this morning...

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence...

“It helps if you can realize that this part of life when you don’t know what’s coming is often the part that people look back on with the...

Finished my first NYU final yesterday, or so I thought. I was at my computer, ready to roll at 9:55 yesterday, set for a 10 a.m. start....