On Sunday I dragged myself up from my sick bed to host a holiday party. (Kathy actually did most of the work.) Since it was the holiday season an’ all, I checked an ecclesiastical calendar to find out which of the Twelve Days of Christmas we were celebrating. Turns out it was the Feast of […]

Santa Claus brought me a cold for Christmas, but I have struggled wheezing and gasping to the keyboard to wish you all the best of the season.That and successful virus evasion.

(“Reboot! Reboot!” sounds like something a cartoon frog would say, doesn’t it?)“Reboot!” is also what Thomas Friedman is recommending for the USA. (He had a lousy flight from Hong Kong, apparently. )Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival […]

On a bitterly cold night last Saturday we motored up to Santa Fe to catch a baroque Christmas concert at the Loretto Chapel. The Loretto Chapel was at one point the only Gothic structure west of the Mississippi, and was built at the behest of Archbishop Lamy, the aristocratic, autocratic priest who drove wretchedly poor […]