The View from This Seat

This is my fourth “in praise of …” posting, and I am now happy to be able to pay tribute to Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a person I have long a...

It was a hard twenty-four hours. I’m talking about the 22½ hours at Windermere last Friday and Saturday and the first hour and a half drivin...

Tomorrow, March 21, would be my father’s 95 th birthday, had he not passed away in the summer of 2007. Even though it has been more than...

Susan Wicklund is a sensitive and compassionate woman. She is also an abortion doctor. Last week the Vital Conversations group of which June...

The always controversial Glenn Beck has stirred up quite a fuss by the outrageous remarks he made on his March 2 TV program. Fox News has re...

A few days ago the Winter Olympics in Vancouver ended, and it was quite a spectacle. But do you remember where the Summer Olympics were held...

Is there a man in the moon? There is a long tradition in the West that says there is. Or is it a rabbit pounding rice ( mochi )? That is the...