Monthly Archives: September 2007

The following is a re-post from September 24, 2005.Route to Rita At first, my son wasn’t excited about moving to Houston. He’d heard they had hurricanes. Fr John Salem, the priest at St George, encouraged me to tell him that … Continue reading →

A. J. Jacobs’ recent book writing trick: Live a whole year following all the rules of the Bible. Unless your religion is similar to a Weird Al Yankovic video, or your Bible’s missing a whole section called the “New Testament,” … Continue reading →

Back when I was an Episcopalian — and “on my way” (as the say) to Orthodoxy — I really weirded out the Missuz. Oh sure, she was ready to move on from where we were, but she was not 100% … Continue reading →

Ladies and Gentlemen, as you may know, I have Hollywood connections. I participated in Sony’s interactive media campaign when they launched the Da Vinci Dialogue to promote Tom Hanks in the screen version of Dan Brown’s blockbuster. (Updated audio version … Continue reading →