Lately, I’ve been thinking about how two people often experience the same thing in vastly different ways. In dramatic ways, we see this every news cycle as those within political silos of isolation receive vastly different information about what has happened and which is purposefully presented to provoke contrasting responses — and usually responses of…

Tonight is St. Nicholas Night; tomorrow is the Feast of St. Nicholas. I won’t pretend that the existence of a real St. Nicholas in the fourth Century is news to any of you, or that his sneaking gold into a house to save girls from being sold into slavery seems to have been the inspiration…