Author name: Chris

Few things are lonelier than eating alone in a restaurant. I found myself in that situation recently when I had […]

This is a work in progress. I was making a list of things that bother me about the Bush administration

It’s been at least a week since Ive published — too much to read! And what follows is more than

“Nature’s first green is gold,” said Robert Frost. I had always thought he was talking about forsythia, but research suggests

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has taken a good deal of abuse in recent days for suggesting that 9/11 was a

In Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More is put on trial for his life and Richard

When things got a little contentious, my mother would often say, “Birds in their little nests agree.” She never cited

Beowulf had it easy. There’s a monster? Tear its arm off. Well, then there was Grendel’s mother, but chop her

My grandmother used to ask, “Is it true, or did you read it in the paper?” One thing I have

In Ingmar Bergman’s movie, the Seventh Seal, a knight is confronted by Death but argues that he needs more time