America

Trump choppered in for a photo-op in the ashes of Paradise. He stood in the ruins, hands on hips and fidgeting with his cufflinks like the pea/cock he is, blathering…

We’re hearing the word ‘breakthrough’ a lot lately. It’s starting to sound like one of those words that has no meaning, like ‘compassion.’

I have a good friend in the Azores who lived in California for 18 years. He’s been back on his home island in the mid-Atlantic for 20 years, but retains…

Magnificent formations of white cumulus hang over the foothills, mountains in the sky above mountains of the land. Though the town is full of parents and siblings for graduation ceremonies,…

Below my feet, after days of heavy rain, the little creek on the periphery of town is like a gray-green animal surging ferociously and relentlessly forward. Above my head, as…

There’s a pervasive conflation and confusion between occult and the esoteric matters. Are they actually two completely different and distinct things, which have no relationship to each other?

Canada celebrates 150 years as a country today, marked by the year it freed itself of the rump and remnants of the British Empire. The question now is: Will Canada…

The basic assumptions that a speaker or writer holds are often enfolded in an offhanded remark, asides of such conventional wisdom that their truth seems indisputable. These are precisely the…