Keeping Up With The Windsors
Sitting at my computer at this moment, my gaze wanders around the room to identify all the things that identify me as an anglophile. Queen Victoria has a mug and […]
Buckingham. Boris. Bobby.
News and prayers at home and abroad. Buckingham. God Save the Queen. Our illustrious leader and the First Harlot are on an official visit to the United Kingdom. Sister Betty […]
American Precision
American ingenuity. American exceptionalism. But what about American precision? Does it even exist? Not when it comes to holidays, and seldom when it comes to language. While grade school children […]
Benihana, Border & Birkin
Let us fling our prayers far and wide. Benihana. Our fearless leader has been on a social call in Japan. Taking origami classes, I’m sure, so that the can sit […]
Revisiting Magnolias of the Steel Variety
Several years ago, I was excited to go to a party in California that was to be attended by Ben Mankiewicz. He is one of my nerdy hot crushes, doing […]
Alabama. Atlanta. Astute.
Just a few things on my heart and prayer list. Alabama. God bless the good people of Alabama. One simply has to be in awe of a state which governs […]
I Had A Dream
“. . . a wonderful dream, Papa.” See what those four words can do? “I had a dream” is the key to unlocking one’s inner Ethel Merman. Say those four […]
Tragedy, Tea & Tariffs
Let us mourn. For celebrities and farmers. Tragedy. Oh, Brothers and Sister, the tragedy of death has passed our way again in recent days. One of the last remaining stars […]
The Boys In The Band
For as long as I can remember, there have been rock bands. Beatles and Stones and Monkees, oh my. Some grew somewhat organically out of key associations—Jagger/Richards, Lennon/McCartney—that began when […]
Stork. Stupid. Stewards.
What a week. Here are my Christian observations. Stork. Oh joyous news. A stork delivery in the United Kingdom. (I refuse to refer to this as a royal birth since […]