By Michael Patrick O’Brien– You’ll have a deep, and maybe unwanted, insight into the odd workings of my mind knowing that the two most vivid memories of my boyhood home…
Posts published in May 2019
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Dear sixth-grade-girl-whose-name-I-don’t-remember: Our last year of elementary school was heavenly for me. I now realize, many years later, that it may have been hellish for you.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I attended a lecture last week in my hometown Salt Lake City about the Irish workers who helped build the transcontinental rail. The nation recently observed…
By Gary Topping– No doubt many of our readers have seen the short film clip of the actor and activist Martin Sheen, who claims to have been arrested more than…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– For many years, a mysterious painting of the French city where I was born had haunted me. The art work is not frightening; it’s quite lovely.…