Here’s a video post about our preparations for moving. I hope you’ll find it moving, too.
Category Archives: Commentary
A Chorus Line at 50: A Brief, Loving Tribute
Do you have a favorite work of art that touches your soul? Here’s one of ours … and my attempt to explain why.
Fifty Years and Going Strong: A Writer Well Worth Knowing
You won’t find a better journalist, chronicler of the Deep South or all-around fine-principled person than Randall Williams. His new Substack “experiment” is fascinating reading.
Our Apostille Adventure: Notes from the Journey Away
When I first heard the word apostille, I thought it was some sort of delicate European pastry. But with our planned move to Portugal, we’ve become intimately acquainted with the term. And have conquered our fear of it.
Hooray for Hitchcock
The movie Hitchcock with Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins is great fun, a well-acted, fictionalized account of the creation of the thriller Psycho. And a trigger for remembrance of things past.
Finding Your Voice: The Church Helped Me Find Mine
It was winter 2009. Not a dark and stormy night, but a bright Saturday morning. At a meeting of the Northeast Georgia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I spoke in favor of allowing openly gay people to hold leadership positions in the church. I was terrified.
A Slippery Slope: The NYT Spelling Bee Game
Wordle? Great. Connections? No problem. Of all the New York Times’ daily puzzles, it’s the Spelling Bee game that threatens to ruin my life.
The Censor Machine Hits Home
Meta took down one of my Facebook posts last night, saying it “violated community standards.” The post, with a link to a video of Ted and me cooking in our kitchen in Spain, featured a still shot of Ted with one hand on my shoulder.
Our Fave Christmas Ornaments
When you downsize to a 1,000-square-foot condo and a three-foot-tall Christmas pine, you must be picky when choosing ornaments to hang at Christmas, especially when your collection spans nearly 50 years together. That’s a lotta ornaments. Here’s our Top 10.
We All Need a Good Torch Song, Don’t We?
Looking for distractions from the political scene this week, I found a gem. Some say this song from the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies is the greatest torch song ever written. What say you?
Mike Coleman 