Some 1,430 vintage Easter postcards (with chicks, cherubs, crosses and more) are currently for sale on Ebay.com. I sometimes buy antique post cards in thrift stores (with their odd, cryptic messages and old addresses on the back), remount them, and send them to my closest friends. You can also maintain a small frame on your…

This week’s Newsweek details the spiritual journey of Boston University professor Steve Prothero, author of the new book “Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–and Doesn’t.” His beef is that while most Americans claim they are religious or spiritual, they actually know very little about the history of the views that they and others…

Lots of couples are booking churches or ballrooms and vying for group hotel rates so that they might be wed on the upcoming weekend of July 7th, 2007 (o7/07/07). Sevens are lucky. Or sacred, or something, right? No, not in this case, says astrologer Shelley Ackerman of KarmicRelief.com. “07/07/07 is not the time to take…

Every now and then, I get depressed about this blog. I worry that I’m trying to cover too much. I think that I’m aggravating the nerves in my hands (I have tendonitis in my forearms). I believe that I’m not as fast or prolific as other talented people we know. I ponder how I could…

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