Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

“A Prayer for Us,” by Rob Brezny And so I am starting to pray right now to the God of Gods . . . the God beyond all Gods . . . the...

The older I get, the more Christmas fills me with a terrible ambivalence. But please note: “ambivalent” doesn’t imply a...

I met the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, the retired bishop of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey), way...

Season 1, Episode 4:

I hope my friend Indigo Bunting will weigh in with her recollections and corrections to this story. I am old and my memory is failing,...

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Season 1, Episode 1 of one of the funniest webshow/podcast series I’ve ever seen:

This has been circulating on the Internet for a while now, but it’s still good for a laugh. Someone went over to the Church Sign...

My parents are appearing in my dreams with disturbing frequency now. After my father died in 1982, I saw him in dreams and dream-states...

In two days I’m heading out of town for the holidays. When Dad died in 1982, Mom and I couldn’t bear to celebrate that first Christmas...

I mentioned on Facebook that poetry saved my life. Adam and I were discussing Gerard Manley Hopkins (Adam had written a few lines of...

Lots of family and family-of-family; a couple of neighbors; a few very dear friends of mine; a few family friends of my brothers. Flowers...

My mother is dying. I’m sitting in a chair in her room, and she’s dying in the bed next to me. She has stopped eating. She is drinking...

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the...

Maybe the changing seasons are prompting people to cover up. Maybe the political climate is making everyone more conservative. Maybe...

From an online forum: Many of my friends in their 30s are starting to play around with psychedelics again. Mushrooms & LSD. I guess we...

If you’re going to be in the area this Sunday, July 13, feel free to drop by the Yogashakti Mission (a Hindu ashram devoted to the study...