Author: Nicholas Knisely

‘A better future?’ Or just more bickering?

An English writer maintains working respect for Rowan Cantuar, but is apt to disagree with him most vigorously. She is as likely to call him down as she is to uphold him. In other words, to use a purely English metaphor, her Archbishop is not an unquestionable royal on a pleasure-cruise; he is the Prime Minister at a raucous question-session of Parliament — a man of religious preferment and, therefore, accountability.

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Sunday’s Café Social Hour

It’s been a busy week on the Café Facebook page, which has become very good about showing our posts in people’s streams. It’s interesting to note that we have almost as many fans on Facebook as we do followers on Twitter, and if we were to do a serious cull of coffeeshops that follow us because we have “Café” in our name, we’d probably reverse the ratio.

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The gift of a brush with mortality, Garrison Keillor

Two weeks ago, you were waltzing around feeling young and attractive, and now you are the object of Get Well cards and recipient of bouquets of carnations. Rich or poor, young or old, we all face the injustice of life — it ends too soon…

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