Dec 27, 2020
"As you drive northeast through Dutchess County in upstate New York, farm scenes strike calendar poses: leaning barns, well-tended white Victorians, winding roads tunneling through overhanging maples."
A pastoral paradise... but is there something dark under the surface? Troubles in America manifest in the personal. Let...
Dec 13, 2020
"I hope you've not taken cold with the doors open, Doctor. The wind was blowing harsh on the heath. I'd forgotten how mortally cold wind can make you."
Nov 22, 2020
"It was Christmas ’37 when the ship docked at Piraeus and disgorged me and my trunk onto the quay of the commercial harbor.... I was now just like the immigrants you’d sometimes see on Ellis Island, back in my own country."
Nov 8, 2020
"In some old magazine or newspaper, I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man—let us call him Wakefield—who absented himself for a long time from his wife."
Oct 26, 2020
"By the time the next tsunami hit, at dawn, Father Flanagan's main concern was for the nuns. Their children's mission, on another island miles away, was at risk."