One frequent topic of conversation with my roommate at St. Margaret’s in London was the respective girls with whom we anticipated...

In Michelangelo’s depiction of  God and Adam on the Sistine Chapel, the two subjects are just barely out of reach from one another. It...

While lying limp in the teeth of depression, happiness is often visible in the lives of others, but there’s no hope to reach it for...

If I’m reading my own journal correctly, we were placed in our “homestays,” and took a trip to Stratford on Avon maybe during a weekend...

Dreams bewilder me.  I never know what’s real and what’s not real. For example, if you believe in angels, and you believe the Bible, how...

It doesn’t take long to find favorite spots in a great city. The National was an easy favorite for the view of distant Charing Cross to...

In January of 1991, if you check or remember the world news, images of Saddam Hussein predicting a “long and bloody war” with the U.S....

Throughout my college years I maintained what LC called a pre-law concentration. That, for me, added up to a double major in English and...