I’ve been reading The Coming of the New Deal by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. This book, published in 1959, was the second of three titles in Professor Schlesinger’s The Age of Roosevelt series.

I have tomorrow off with my wife. What will we do? First, as you see above, we will get dressed up. We are quite formal people. Then, we are going to go to the U.S. Post Office to mail off some holiday gifts. My father-in-law worked at the U.S....

Cincinnati’s Aurore Press has many fine holiday gifts. Above is the chapter book godLess. The book is a series of short essays about God and the absence of God in the lives of the contributing writers. I have an essay in godLess. This book would be...

Above is my holiday lighthouse. Each year I take the lighthouse out of the closet and put it on top of my television. If you turn on the switch, the lighthouse makes a foghorn sound. It makes sounds of bells, waves, and seagulls. Also, Santa and...

The openly gay Annise Parker has been elected Mayor of Houston. Also, gay folks were elected to two of the five city council seats that are elected by the entire city. (Correction–-A reader points out I am mistaken about the number of city at-large...

Above is our household Menorah for the first night of Hanukkah. (Update—The picture of our household Menorah won’t stay up on the blog. So now we have a picture of the stained-glass menorah you see above.) One person of our two-person household is...