I had to travel to Massachusets this week for business, so I brought my wife along. We stayed at a great B & B in Granby, CT - The Dutch Iris Inn. We drove up to Northampton, MA one night for dinner (about 45 minutes away).
Northampton is a cute little college town. As we […]

I haven’t said much about the abuse that occured in Abu Graib. For me, in my outrage, I started making comments like “f___ing rednecks”. Then I realized that I had made a horrible mistake - the same mistake that I learned about when I read Night, by Elie Wiesel.
When we see monstrosities commited by […]

If there is hope [wrote Winston] it lies in the proles. - 1984, George Orwell
It occurred to me today that the greatest hope for strength and change in a civilization lies with the masses - the exact group of people who, while being the most numerous, are also the most handicapped by their inability to […]

C.S. Lewis helped to re-awaken my love of myth and magic. The British author and Professor of Classics in the mid-twentieth century has helped millions of Christians find the freedom to embrace Christianity in a new way — one that is utterly appropriate for meeting modern culture where it’s at.
Until recently, it was the […]

Some eco-links I picked up over the weekend:
The Permaculture Institute
The Scourge of Agriculture - an interview with Richard Manning, by The Atlantic Monthly Online
and also a nice interview (again, by The Atlantic Online) with Paul Theroux - who writes about traveling and writing. Two of my favorite things!