Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart

 I had something else planned for today, but I think a lament for the victims of the midair collision at Reagan National Airport in Washingt...

 Despair's been big on my mind lately, and I try to keep it warded off with long-term projects. Not easy to do when you're tied to a...

Cancer's cost me a lot since the beginning of the year, so I thought I'd have some fun. While I can,  said the melodramatic poet. Ba...

 What do you do when you are past the strength that you depended on? What do you do when the last reserves of faith have fled, are gone? Wha...

 God's given me the City's keys, and this I have been told, that I need not walk on bended knees upon the Streets of Gold, for down ...

 There is almost nothing sadder (so few things at all!) than placing your success-climb ladder  against, yeah, the wrong wall and looking ov...

    There are no problems for the rich, they need not wear a frown, but this week nature was a bitch, and Malibu burned down. The wealthy an...