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I have spent a lot of time trying to make sense of Chuck’s life and my relationship with him.  There were so many facets and narrative threads that mere words fail. My own story with Chuck began at Manhattan College when our interests and schedules began to coincide. He was a brilliant student, a talented [...]

…that almost two years have passed since my last post. I’ve been reworking the infrastructure of this blog for the last few weeks now.  I’ll try to do better.

It’s hard to believe that it’s almost October and I haven’t posted since mid-July. Things have been very busy for me these last few months with work, freelance audiobook editing, Web site creation (on a volunteer basis – dumb, I know), career development and life in general. I realize that no one out there is [...]

In a week in which a high Vatican official likened advocates for reproductive choice, stem-cell research and gay-marriage to terrorists, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke resigned from the board of the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center Foundation to protest the appearance of Sheryl Crow at last night’s benefit concert for the Bob Costa’s Cancer Center. [...]

The bodies were scarely out of the building before the media descended on Blackburg, Virginia. Within hours of the shooting, journalists were posing questions about the response of VT administrators and local law enforcement. Another alienated young man? Why didn’t anybody see the torrent of bullets coming? Shortly thereafter, the opening gambits in the next [...]