Chalking this one up to learning something new every day, we’ve had a close encounter with toxic synovitis. Whether the diagnosis will stick remains to be seen, after a return from a visit to the hospital, where blood tests and a bone scan will be underway shortly. This is not for me, but for one […]
In his blog, Emerson College senior and filmmaker Luis Dechtiar describes a recent event (March 25) when the Campus Conversations on Race Action Committee (which involves Bahá’ís) went against the grain, and in the face of last-minute denial of school sponsorship, with a re-creation of the Hurricane Katrina fiasco.
Being a writer and whatnot, I find news like this pretty aggravating. How an author can claim to have any credibility after denying the similarity of the passages is beyond me.
Scott Adams, who writes the Dilbert comic strip, has had an engaging blog going for a while now. He occasionaly takes on religious topics, and recently he pondered the rationale for believing, or not, in various prophets. Specifically, he wondered how a person can believe in Moses but not Muhammad.
It looks like at least one […]
Things have been a bit intense for me lately. I think I’ve been doing the emotional equivalent of hiding underneath a rock. For a while we had gorgeous weather that enticed me out from under the rock when it was bright and cheerful, and then I wanted to retreat immediately at the end of the […]
Perusing the news this morning, I learned that the Titanic sank on April 15 in 1912.
I recall that the prominent Baha’i ‘Abdu’l-Baha, known as the Master, was at one point gifted with a ticket to sail on the Titanic, in planning a major trip to Europe and the United States, but soon rearranged plans to […]
My first morning in San Francisco, I awoke in the dark, somewhat neurotic and crazed, at about 4:00. I had been dreaming about wandering the streets of this unfamiliar city throughout the night. My companions were River and his brother Noah, who were jovially skateboarding everywhere we went, and Pedraum Pardehpoosh, a Palo Alto resident […]
This room is where the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of San Francisco holds its regular meetings. It’s where I spent most of my weekend. The Bahá’í Center is a nifty art deco building at one end of Valencia Street. From this location, which is sort of considered the Civic Center district, you can walk […]
While in San Francisco over the weekend for a series of Web development meetings, I had a chance to meet up with Michelle. She and I go way back. We first met on a mutual friend’s front porch in 1979, when our parents were strategizing which public magnet school we would attend in Pittsburgh. As […]