By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I have a strange and nostalgic affection for Quonset huts. My odd architectural ardor for the prefab semi-circular metal structures that housed World War II airplanes…
Posts published in September 2023
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As a kid, Daniel Shanahan loved to visit his uncle, a Trappist monk at New Melleray Abbey in Iowa. Shanahan considered joining a monastery too, but…
By Gary Topping– Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir, Speak, Memory, is a loving recollection of life during the last years of Czarist Russia and the first twenty years of his exile in…
By Jathan Janove (guest contributor)– At a Hanukkah party in Salt Lake City in December 2000, Bert Spiegel (see If Jews had saints…) approached me and said he wanted to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– On a recent warm summer evening, a lovely young nun dressed in pink and wearing a simple white veil visited our church and told us some…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When it comes to appreciating church art, I’ve always been more of a paintings/sculpture kind of guy than a fan of mosaics. The imaginative cut stone…