My Commonplace Blog

Quickly my literal faith in God unraveled. My faith in the Church as a community, however, continued. People from my grandparents' churc...

Mt Pett, meanwhile, had been trailing in the rear with a hunted expression on his face. He had the unmistakable look of a man about to be pr...

'Oh, I am glad you have begun to take an interest in cricket. It is simply a social necessity in England. Why you ever made such a fuss ...

True to the most basic of German instincts and thus following in the footsteps of the Teutons, Hohenstaufen emperors, and Deutschromer art w...

I tried to work up the requisite hatred for the reputed blue-bloods, but in fact I was torn. From the period of my mental excursions into th...

He ran his business like it was a plot, people used to say. Khalifa thought of him as the pirate, nothing was too small for him: smuggling, ...

There they are now, out of the sun at last. Through the door of their last resting-place you may see their forms, proud as ever, silhouetted...