Update: Problem seems to be resolved now–things have been working normally since sometime late yesterday. — I suppose everybody is seeing the same malfunction I am: comment headers appear in the Recent Comments sidebar, but when you click on them nothing's there. I don't know what's going on. As you may or may not realize,…

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Political pundits have been buzzing for a couple of days now about whether Mrs. Clinton's teary-eyed-on-TV moment was genuine or fake, and whether it would/did help or hurt her in the New Hampshire primary. As to the first question: I don't care. As to the second question: if it made any difference one way or…

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Singing With the Choir I’m one of those unfortunate people who have a great love of music but very little aptitude for it. My singing voice is marginal at very best. I long ago gave up any hope of having a good voice, and consider any effort at singing a success if I can stay…

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Several Alabama fans are discussing tonight's BCS game. All except one–call him Fan A–are agreed that they will cheer for LSU because they usually cheer for the SEC team against an opponent from another conference. Fan B: Why don't you want LSU to win? Fan A: I don't know, I guess I just hate to…

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Some people are dog people, some are cat people, some like both. The pope seems to be in the second group. He plays a little Mozart on the piano every evening for relaxation, and he takes in injured cats and nurses them back to health. Draw your own conclusions. I’m in that last group myself,…

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Mavis Staples: We’ll Never Turn Back This is a revisiting of the themes and some of the songs of the ‘60s civil rights movement by one of the greats of gospel music. In the abstract that idea strikes me as one that, however well-intentioned, could prove a little dull, but the combination of Mavis Staples’…

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I mean that in two ways: first, Christmas 2007-8 ends tomorrow, of course. Second, maybe it’s just me and my age, but it seems to me that the charm of the old semi-secular American Christmas has faded. We complain about the secularization and commercialization of Christmas, but I have to admit that I’ve always liked…

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…that a car made in Sweden would have a good heater, wouldn't you? Well, mine doesn't. Maybe it's just broken. After all, it's a 16-year-old car. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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I am inviting you, in this blazing charity, to plunge into a peaceful sea, a deep sea. I have just rediscovered the sea—not that the sea is new, but it is new to me in the way my soul experiences it—in the words “God is love.”….these words echo within me that everything that is done…

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Loss and gain in the past, fear and hope for the future. I believe that in the end hope is the winner, and I pray that I'm not wrong. As usual, Arlo has something of interest to say. Yeah, Father Time just kills me, too. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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