WOUNDED BIRD

How sad it is when Democrats who elected Barack Obama must remain in constant campaign mode to convince the president that many of us who he...

  A bright yellow car would be easier to find when I forget where I've parked in a large parking lot.

My Uncle Eddie was a rather unsympathetic character except for his own personal woes, which, according to him, were many.  Whenever anyon...

The Gospel takes away our right forever to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. ---Dorothy Day Thanks to sever...

"But, you see, I love people and I see the good in them," she continued. "And you're apt to reach what you see. The w...

You know --anxiety is an idol... as is bitterness... as is self-destruction.... Oh so true and right. margaret blogs at leave it lay whe...

Davina Lambreaux (Edwina Findley), in the Tremé HBO series, asks her brother Delmond (Rob Brown) for help with their father, Albert (Clar...

If Hurricane Sandy put Obama over the top, perhaps God is trying to tell Pat Robertson and his ilk that she doesn't hate gays.

If you are a blogger and do not believe in eternal life, then you must never have hit publish by mistake and had to delete a post. The post...

The world would be a fine place, were it not for the people. (But for me and thee!)

Man’s last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God. UPDATE:  The thought above in a broader context: I will put into plain word...

Since Lawrence O'Donnell suggested that I stay tuned to The Last Word because Alec Baldwin would appear on his show, I have not watched...

Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, the leader of 23 million Anglicans in Nigeria, said that while the historic position of the Archbishop of Cant...

May we stop calling it the defense budget and start calling it the war budget? The thought is not original with me, but I forgot where I r...

Whatever success resulted from John F Kennedy's carefully crafted efforts to allay fears about a Roman Catholic president being influenc...

Well, anyhow, I am not going to die young From Given - by Wendell Berry. Since I turned 70 in the latter part of the year before the boo...

Newt Gingrich: "If I have idols," Newt told the crowd, "it's Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." Charles Pierce...

If you can take one part out, if it's not for the purpose of procreation, that's not one of the reasons you diminish this very speci...

I confess I'm a bit sorry to say good-bye to Herman Cain as a viable Republican candidate for president. I rather hoped Cain would be ...

Our lives were simple when all we owned fit in our 1961 Ford Falcon. Picture from LOVEFords .