My latest short story, “The Borde Syndrome,” has been published in the August 2020 issue of Arkansas Review. It’s a story that’s uncommonly surrealist for me, but then, so are these times.

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Sep 23 2015

On humility, again.

I return to this subject years after I wrote about it, briefly, as a “thought of the day” on June 11, 2012. (You can find the passage now on the “Older Thoughts of the Day” page.) I return to it because I had thought of it on and off for years, and never stopped after …

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Sep 15 2013

On the big and small.

Unoriginally, I must start with a sunrise. Yet another sunrise. I thought I would write today about the parable of the prodigal child – today’s gospel, but the sunrise, you see… Here at the monastery, I live on the roof. Well, on the fifth floor of a four-storey building, so a door leads right out …

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