Return of the Butterfly: From Fleur, with Love

Sometimes the best way to read a novel is to write one. Over a decade ago, something like that began happening to me. I’d already been working at the craft of fiction for many years when it occurred to me that it might be interesting to try writing a first...

An Immodest Proposal: Zero Tolerance for Child Abuse

“And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the...