My driver this afternoon was a former refugee who's been in Canada for some years. He had a warm, generous face, even when I could...

In an odd way, I applaud Michael Knowles for placing his genocidal fantasies front and centre, in a way that even the Nazis didn't quite...

I wanted to sit with my feelings about M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin (2023) for a bit before rendering some thoughts First off...

"Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, The ways of the woodlands were ...

  I'm saddened tonight by the news that Nordstrom is shuttering all its Canadian stores.  I didn't shop there—I was not their target...

We lost our friend Kirk Rogers last night. Kirk was the ultimate refutation of the notion that Facebook "friends" aren't rea...

 

  On September 4th, 1967, with blistering dignity, 15-year old Elizabeth Eckford, the first Black student to integrate a Southern high schoo...

 

  The Hero M.D.  and I received the very best early Christmas present yesterday. The post-op pathology report from my surgery in November w...

Someone missed me, clearly. Not just tonight, but during this whole process, which has often separated, for hours, a senior Labrador who can...

This afternoon in Aurora, CO, the amended autopsy report on the death of Elijah McClain was released. The 23-year old Black man was injected...

  I woke up this morning inexplicably missing my parents. I don't dwell in the past, as a rule, but this journey upon which I've bee...

Chemo session #7 (aka "the one officially past the halfway mark when it's done") got underway a half-hour ago, about three hou...

"Pink is the navy blue of India," as Diana Vreeland famously pronounced in 1956 to the legendary fashion photographer Norman Parki...