… in a Box.

I was disappointed to learn that the pope is not keeping God in a box at the Vatican. Or if he is, that it was not part of the tour. I didn’t realize it until I had been there, but my half-Catholic blood is always secretly hoping that the Catholics have a direct line to […]

Holy Water

Although he is regularly served expensive food, my white cat thinks I’m trying to starve him to death. He woke up early on Orthodox Easter, found the beet-red boiled egg I’d been given, and chewed one end of it off. Scattered around the gnawed egg, I found the pastel foil-wrapped chocolates the priest had sprinkled with […]

Reasonable Doubt

This morning, driving to work, I had an epiphany: we should put Dick Cheney in a room with the administrators who okayed an adolescent girl being stripped searched and see what happens. I sometimes have to take a hiatus from morning radio. Sometimes morning news causes me to shout things across my apartment at no […]

Winter’s Last Grab

Theoretically, the arrival of spring is inevitable. It doesn’t feel inevitable in April. We get handed a day of sun and short sleeves, the forsythia squint out, and then winter yanks us back. Today is forty degrees, overcast as a trenchcoat, and the wind slaps everyone in the face. Grow up! It’s not spring yet! […]