Just as his hero, Orson Welles, is remembered mainly for Citizen Kane, the first of the 16 films he directed,…
I’ve been thinking a bit about mortality recently. I’m near the magical age that once was viewed as the normal…
How does a faithless generation end? By suicide in a Sarco. What is a Sarco? Well, it’s a suicide machine…
When Donald Trump suggested in 2015 that some American Muslims had cheered the destruction of the World Trade Center, he…
I lost my first friend during my early 20s while I was in school. He was a youngish, politically active…
I suspect Joan Didion would be amused to learn that I keep her on my obituary watch. The 86-year-old essayist…
Evangelical legend Billy Graham died today at age 99. He counseled presidents and convicted thousands and brought them to Christ….
There’s a scene in Lord of the Rings where the hobbits ask Legolas what the elves are singing about Gandalf….
One of the most depressing statistics I have ever read came out of a survey of British funeral directors a…
