Why this picture of this particular chicken (known as Bloomis Chaffee) to accompany this particular post? Because... what an audacious cr...

For years, it was the longing that had no name, the longing that I wouldn’t allow myself to name. Denied and suppressed, it took on ugly s...

“Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your pr...

“We’re just spinning leaves in the flight of a dawn, little girl Falling through an eternal horizon of time But I’d like to think a...

From my embarrassing photo file, which includes any photo taken between the ages of 9-14, none of which, I vowed, should ever see the lig...

Mary Magdalene by Tintoretto. I wouldn ’t have even noticed the display as we hurriedly passed by it, late as usual to one or anot...