It was chance that put me at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine yesterday, September 11. I?m in New York on business this week, and since I was baptized Episcopalian three years ago I have always meant to see the Cathedral during a...
Here’s the second half of my Chronicle essay about my brother. I got to Instant Message with him the morning. He’s been practicing photography, with some skill, I think, and he sent these photos: He’s been doing incredibly tough...
My brother Emmet, an Army sniper stationed in Mosul, Iraq, has to be having his best Memorial Day ever. To begin with, the Santa Barbara News-Press has a front-page article today about the risky dive he took into the Tigris River a few months ago...
And now just for fun . . . Launching this blog has connected me to an old friend in high school, who writes: ?I was reading an email about “SUMMERDANCE” in Santa Barbara and saw that a “Rachel Howard” was reviewing it and...
I took this photo at a makeshift pet cemetery tucked away in San Francisco?s Castro Neighborhood. It?s part of a longer story that I will make very short here. My younger brother Emmet is a sniper with the U.S. Army, an occupation that inspires...
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