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In Praise of the Children’s Choir Accompanist

Every few weeks, in what I assume is a uniquely Protestant ritual, a dozen small children stand at the front of our church and sing for the congregation. A kindly woman conducts,…
April 16, 2018

A Tale of Two Tragedies

This past week, the Baton Rouge district attorney announced he would not press charges against the two police officers who shot and killed Alton Sterling when attempting to arrest him. A year-and-a-half…
April 6, 2018

The Economic Value of Streetcars

Although you would hardly know it today, Baltimore was once a city of streetcars. Crackling densely across the city’s center like fissures in old pavement and then sprawling thinly outward into the…

Reading Chatwin in Silesia

When I moved to Poland it was the first time I had left Britain. I have lived in the same town for four years and a month. Tarnowskie Góry is Silesian, lying…
March 12, 2018

A Few Favorable Words About Jud Heathcote

I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.
August 30, 2017

Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet

It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.
August 23, 2017
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