Nothing pleases Uncle Honore more than an occasion to celebrate. Weddings and funerals are his mainstay. They are the only touches of Old World pomp and ceremony Americans have left and he seldom misses one. I suspect it is because he has never had either one of them of his own ( Read more... )

Well, here's a twist to the usual co-counseling/college reunion/summer vacation dream: a good, old-fashioned funny farm, the kind they probably outlawed a generation ago, but Frederick Wiseman made famous in his documentary "Titicut Follies" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ( Read more... )

Okay, so for the first time in months it appears that all my lj friends are in good shape. Even heard from Vincent; and on the oddest subject; I suddenly don't feel nearly so guilty that I haven't finished "Varieties of Religious Experience". I think I could probably write a pretty good review of it right now, but, that it would probably be ( Read more... )