The St. Louisan Who Could Rule the World

Brilliant, he admits to an “almost delusional level of self-confidence.” Will we pay for his recklessness?

“Play Like Satie”

“Haunting” is the first word that comes to mind. The melody’s ghost lingered, changing the very air. The Gymnopédies, a word I now know means “Three Nude Dances,” were indeed bare: simple, vulnerable, tender, wistful, melancholy.

Take an Umbrella….

Mary Poppins' umbrella was all about Sufi mysticism, and a Bulgarian umbrella will kill you.

The Vanities of Age

Want to grow old gracefully? Less striving, more love.

What Old Dogs Know

Do these people not know that now is now is now is NOW?

Living at Odds With One’s Country

How do we stay plugged into a society that is fast losing any moral compass—and keep our own?

A Queasy Selling of the Family Heirlooms

I am not sure which would appall my mother more: “dip chiller” to name her receptacle for delicate, extravagant shrimp, or me asking an artificial intelligence to remind me what she taught me.

Hire Vitrivius to Do Your Interior Design

Cicero: “An enormous house is often a discredit to the owner, if there is an emptiness about the place.”

Do You Have to Like the Main Character?

When I defended likability, I sounded, even to my own ears, naïve.

Dare We Say It? The Bible Is a Messy Book

Somehow I had come to think of the Bible as stuck together from the start, a sacred, ordained book on which we speak our oaths...

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