And maybe the modern trend toward excessive personal grooming is not such a hot idea either, not to mention zippers.

“If you swim out in the ocean, the ocean’s always alive,” Saugstad said. “You can feel it. But the mountains feel like they’re asleep.” T...

We watched "The Pink Panther" the other night, which came out when I was eight years old.  I believe that was the last time I had ...

In a comment thread below, Tom linked to a fine article by Kevin D. Williamson at the National Review Online, which I thought should be hig...

I'm really impressed with this new line from the President. It's so perfect. It's obviously wrong, in fact the very opposite ...

It's an interesting piece that begins with a cheerful invocation of the nearness of death , but I suppose I can understand the sentiment...

The Red Book is an immense illuminated manuscript, which [Carl] Jung indited on cream vellum in the private scriptorium of his study over a...

Too much of it. But it won't last . They can't afford it much longer. In the fullness of time, we shall live and die again on o...

I'm doing a kind of double-Lent this year, starting this New Year's Day and ending on Easter Sunday. There are reasons for this w...

Maggie's Farm has a terrific punk Auld Lang Syne up, and here's a dixieland rendition:  

We're about to cross the line between 2012 and 2013. Lately I can't remember a time when I rode by the Post Office or the schools a...

In the shape-note songbook, this is called "Plenary" and has gloomier lyrics than I can begin to describe, but I opted for the che...

Not so bleak here, though the house is down to 65 degrees. But this Christmas carol is just the thing for frozen Northerners contemplating ...

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 ...