Johnny Cash and June Carter, singing a song a friend wrote just for them.

Here goes again with "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night," a/k/a "Sherburne" in the Sacred Harp songbook, min...

Today being Boxing Day, we turned our Fists of Righteous Harmony to the task of dismantling the Christmas Tree of Unusual Size and regainin...

My husband bought me a "Garage Band" program ages ago, but I only recently figured out that it's possible to record voice trac...

You may wonder why Saint Stephen's day is the very day after Christmas. Saint Stephen was a martyr killed quite shortly after Jesus him...

Many things attend the feast. The Second Council of Tours ... proclaims, in 566 or 567, the sanctity of the "twelve days" ...

A rather less enchanted kingdom is a sad reality for millions . Spare a thought on Christmas Eve for Christians who live in countries where ...

Once , Sir Gawain quested through harsh country for a long time. It was on this night he found rest and hospitality: Many cliffs he over...

And while they were all standing round them , Merlin came up to them and said, "Now try your forces, young men, and see whether streng...

It's a sad thing when you don't get much attention at your own funeral . Someone needs to tell Barack Obama—it must get particularly...

I remember catching this duet on TV about 35 years ago.  It wasn't two guys I expected to see singing together.  The video was recorded ...

I never get tired of these.  This is what crowds are for. Synchronized dancing in the school-of-fish style makes me happy, too.

Today would be a good day to spend $2.99 and read Heinlein's short story " The Year of the Jackpot, " about a statistician who...

Locally the kids got out of school today, not to return until the end of the holiday season. That means that we are within the holiday time...

We watched the old Gene Kelly film, set in the Scottish Highlands in a mysterious vanishing village. It's based on an old fairy tale...

From a column drawing contrasts and parallels between ancient and modern thought: was thinking of the class strife in Sallust’s Conspiracy ...

Megan McArdle opposes practically every policy that's being proposed to "prevent another Newtown," quoting Dr. Johnson: How...

Is this man teaching his son the right thing?

My niece's dog, who doesn't normally have black foxlike points on her nose or paws.  She looks pleased with herself, doesn't s...

Up the Cavaliers , and down with Roundheads! A piece from the History Channel on the subject of Christmas: An Outlaw Christmas In the earl...