"For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her 'Sibyl, what do you wan...

I keep me  in a drawer:  saved for  special occasions   when I can't be  spared the  indignity  of proving,  by some  bureaucratic  stan...

Nobody becomes depraved overnight. - Juvenal After a long movie dream involving a caravan trapped in a collapsed cavern, an insane a...

I did it to myself. I should know better than to not ask more questions. When a last minute metro council meeting to talk about the city...

Two people in as many days have died on the streets as Louisville settles into the first cold snap of the year. One of them died next to...

Bone thin and tiny even before she tried to fold herself into the air, her eyes were large, dark, and brimming.  She looked young; too y...

On leave in Florida.  I am 45 years old and I'm still coming to terms with the impact my father's death had on my life. Ju...

  The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. - e.e. cummings Only a few go mad. The sky moves in its whiteness ...

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.~ Pericles Politics is ...

Self-erasure is a harsh religion. - from travel journal I have to remind myself sometimes that in spite of what I think of my general...

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit sui...

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress. - Milan Kundera E...

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille, never got a dinner! - Red Bu...

Quality is the greatest enemy of mass-leveling. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Polar Protesting: Near Quicken Loans Arena I spent yesterday i...