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A Tiny Prayer for Sidney Poitier By Micah Bucey Blog Post Sidney Poitier died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on January 6, 2022, at the age of 94. The Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador was the first Black person and first Baha…
John Berger, R.I.P. By Frederic Brussat Blog Post John Berger, a world-famous polymath — critic, artist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, dramatist, artist, commentator, and storyteller — died January 2, 2017, in the Paris suburb of Antony at the …
Making TV a Part of Our Lives By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The gifted comedian Sid Caesar died at the age 91 on February 12, 2014, in Beverly Hills, California. He changed things around in our suburban home during the early 1950s when television was just an…
Death of Novelist Robert Stone By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In his brilliant and troubling 1981 novel A Flag For Sunrise, Robert Stone wrote: "It's the worst thing in the world when people turn you around because you're something else than them." We can reme…
A Mini-Map of My Hands By Frederic Brussat Blog Post You can tell quite a bit about a person's life and personality by looking at their hands. I have often thought but never said aloud that my hands are one of my best features. When we were living in …
My Shoulders: Issues in the Tissues? By Frederic Brussat Blog Post When I was a teenager I remember being told by my parents and other adults to stand up straight. But my shoulders were already rounded and my chest caved in as if I were hiding. Jonathan Fields,…
Discontented Baby Boomers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, Marilyn Suzanne Miller (an original writer for Saturday Night Live and author of How to Be a Middle-Age Babe) outlines the ennui and discontentment of the Baby B…
Remembering James H. Cone By Frederic Brussat Blog Post James H. Cone, The Bill and Judith Moyers Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Seminary in New York, died April 28 in Manhattan at the age of 79. Here is his obituary in The New Y…
Beauty Feeds a Different Kind of Hunger: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Terry Tempest Williams is one of S&P's Living Spiritual Teachers who has for years been active in various efforts to save the environment. At the same time, she has written beautiful spiritual books…
The Remarkable Cinematic Legacy of Australian Director Paul Cox By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Paul Cox, one of Australia's finest and most sensitive film directors, died recently of liver cancer at the age of 76. He was often described as the father of independent cinema in Australia. Cox wa…

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