Two months ago, I considered blogging about how you really have to wash your Brita pitcher out now and then, since mine had grown a slight but eerie green slime when I wasn’t looking. But then, I discarded the idea because I found the whole affair disgusting. More recently, I found that the problem wasn’t…

Osama Bin Laden has spoken after a year of public silence, arousing rage, contempt, and worry among the American public. It’s the worry I’m interested in. Worry isn’t good for anyone; plus, you never know if you are worried about precisely the right thing, which causes you to worry even more pervasively. It’s hard to…

“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you–indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.” –13th-century Sufi master Ibn…

My father is recovering from double pneumonia and gets out of the hospital today, so I’m going to South Carolina this afternoon. I’ll be able to cook, keep Dad from driving himself to the grocery store, and forbid him from getting back on his NordicTracktoo soon. When it comes to fitness, my 91-year-old father is…

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