I was recently reminded of this W. H. Auden poem. Here it is followed by a brief analysis. Continue reading Analysis W. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” or “Stop all the clocks”
Monthly Archives: May 2019
The Myth of the Self-Made Man or Woman
A recent post suggested that while we are individually insignificant we may be significant nonetheless by being a part of something larger than ourselves. This led me to consider how dependent we are at all times on others. In this spirit, I say remember that … Continue reading The Myth of the Self-Made Man or Woman
Professional Ethicists Rarely Oppose Abortion
(This article was reprinted in the online magazine of the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, May 17, 2016, in Church and State and in Critical Perspectives on Abortion (Analyzing the Issues), Anne C. Cunningham, ed., Enslow Publishing 2017.)
Abortion continues to make political news, but a question rarely asked by politicians or other interlocutors is: what do professional ethicists think about abortion? Continue reading Professional Ethicists Rarely Oppose Abortion
Anti-Biography
“Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”
~ Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in “Casablanca.” Continue reading Anti-Biography
My Wife on Mother’s Day
Statue of mother with children at the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
A few days ago I remembered my own mother on the centennial of her birth. But on this Mother’s day, I’d like to acknowledge my wife Jane, for her lifetime of loving mothering. Continue reading My Wife on Mother’s Day