by Ron Medley | Dec 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today is my friend and spiritual leader, the Rev. Kate Flexer’s birthday. I have known her since she and her husband, journalist Jim Hinch, first arrived in New York City as newlyweds to take up residence in the Rectory of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church....
by Ron Medley | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I believe I am hardwired to see and to experience what I cannot see. I can see things in what I read, even though what I am seeing literally are no more than chicken scratches on a page. Honestly, being able to read a page on a book written by someone who lived...
by Ron Medley | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
The truth is that the Kennedys, and celebrities in general, represent a kind of spiritual and intellectual im-maturity on my part. The older brother’s shooting just as school was about to let out on the East Coast on a Friday afternoon ushered in a modern day...
by Ron Medley | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
All human beings have skin pigment, the results of thousands of years of migration from Africa where minute cells containing melanin were the evolutionary tool used to protect us from the sub-Saharan sun. As our ancestors crossed the Sudan into Assyria and from there...