Richard Cecil

The revelers have stumbled home to bed, leaving crushed beer cans and plastic cups for joggers and dog walkers to avoid as they hustle past my house in icy silence. It’s too cold to talk or bark—too cold for birds who shiver on bare branches to tweet warnings that overhead a hungry hawk is circling […]

Where does God go when He/She gets bored with the same old, same old Universe created fourteen or so billion years ago? For God all travel has to be Domestic. No getaway from Everywhere exists unless you count the uncreated Chaos from which all things were made but to which nothing can return, not even […]

Let’s say that you love life so much that you outlive your spouse and friends and enemies, your taste and hearing, but not your income or your brain. “102 and sharp as a pin!” Though your gold retirement watch has stopped, you’re still delighted, when you wake, that you don’t have to go to work, […]