By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The new Tom Hanks movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is giving me some rather intense flashbacks. My mind is awash with memories of that one morning…
Posts published in November 2019
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Much of the new millennium’s chatter is about innovative and cutting edge ideas, such as sustainability. Many of these “new” concepts, however, long have been part…
By Gary Topping– Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon last summer featured a table of books labelled “Must Reads,” or some such thing. My wife bit, and purchased Rebecca…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– During our 2011 trip to Ireland, my three young children often had an odd reaction to the many lovely monuments to Irish historical events and figures that we…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Sometimes I worry that my ora and labora are out of whack. Although the two words sound somewhat orthopedic, I am not thinking about the aging…