Irish Papist

Ever since I read it, many years ago, I've been haunted by this passage from Plato's Phaedo: Socrates, sitting up on the couch, b...

Today is the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. It also marks three years of me keeping my Penzu diary. (Penzu is a diary websit...

I'm quite active on Facebook. It's a terrible temptation to someone like me who is always getting struck by miscellaneous thoughts a...

There are two things I intensely dislike, when it comes to society and social relations-- a body without a soul, and a soul without a body. ...

When was that day, so far away, That far-off day on Bondi Beach? What did they talk about, these folk Who sunned themselves on Bondi Beac...

It's soccer World Cup time again! Reader, do you love this? Or do you hate it? Or does it leave you indifferent? I love it, and I...

The title of this blog post is, of course, taken from the Second Letter to Timothy: "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of sea...