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I e-mailed a physician friend and medical school professor today to tell him about Dr. Tim Lindsey, and the incredible personal care he’s giving to my cancer-stricken sister, who recently became his patient. I recalled for my friend a conversation I’d had with Tim in the hospital last week, in which Tim said he loved…

I was surprised to come across my own name in Samuel G. Freedman’s religion column this past Saturday in the NYT. Freedman wrote a piece saying that voodoo is misunderstood and unfairly criticized by Westerners. Here’s the part where he quotes me: At a putatively more informed level, articles, broadcasts and blogs depicted voodoo as…

I have a friend who is very shy by nature. He learns a lot about people simply by virtue of his reticence to speak. People often assume he agrees with them, simply because he keeps his own counsel (not out of cunning or cowardice, but simply because he’s painfully timid). Inadvertently he’s learned a lot…

Boing Boing posted this very short children’s parable from an old storybook. It’s kind of strange and compelling. Take a look: What do you think it means? Do you think it has a different meaning for parents and children? I see it as a parable of our society and culture, about to be hauled off…
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