On the recommendation by my CUP editor Beatrice Riehl, I took the A train from 42nd street, all the way to 190th street, and got off to see the famous Ft. Tryon Park heather garden and the view of the Palisades across the river in New Jersey. It’s also the locale of the Met’s Cloisters Museum, but alas it was closed on Wednesday. Here are some shots from the garden, and then the view of the Palisades, the rock cliffs... Read more
I’ve always wanted to go to Carnegie Hall. and when I discovered the Philadelphia Orchestra was going to be there the night I arrived in NY and they were going to play the longest symphony on record (1 hour and a half, with six movements) complete with three choirs and a mezzo soprano– Mahler’s Third, the symphony about creation and God…. well I had to go, even if I had to sit in the seventh deck, near heaven, which is... Read more
Me and Cousin It, who’s trying to string me along….. Read more
Sing along now— ‘Jesus loves the little T Rex/ Even though they’re now extinct/ thank God they’re dead and gone/ in the grave where they belong/ and Jesus never held one– at least I think.’ Read more
It’s been quite a while since Francis Collins, the former head of the NIH and one of the Founder of Biologos, published his NY Times bestseller, The Language of God. His new book is something entirely different. It is an attempt by a scientist who is also a very committed Christian to suggest ways America could get beyond the divisiveness, vitriol, cynicism about our basic institutions, hatred, and violence that has all been tearing at the very fabric of... Read more
One of my favorite British artists of the 80s. Read more
What a long strange trip it has been (and still is), to quote the Grateful Dead. My career as a teacher began B.C.– before cellphone, and even before personal computer. My poor wife had to type my doctoral dissertation (twice) on our IBM Selectric 3 typewriter, using a Hebrew ball, and a Greek ball, and a symbol ball etc. Many years later when we were living in Ashland Ohio, our daughter who was in grade school, and had begun to... Read more
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