Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I ran across a draft poem the other day that I never did anything with. I’ll clean it up a bit and post it below. It probably is not one of ...

I am extremely upset by the Supreme Court’s having overturned  Roe v. Wade  yesterday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization . I ne...

I’ve been going through old papers and came upon some poems I have never made public. The poems—limericks, actually—were written in April 20...

Nearly two weeks ago, I posted “ A Democratic Platform for 2022 .” This was a minimalist list of policy positions intended to appeal to vote...

I have read many instructions for making hard-boiled eggs. Any method that works for you is fine, of course. Most importantly, your techniqu...

In 2012, I wrote a post titled “ A Preëmptive Political Post .” My intention in doing so was to head off feeling the need to write individua...

The title of this post was not of my choosing. It is the headline that The Indiana Gazette  gave to a letter to the editor I submitted and w...

For her funeral, I prepared an album of pictures I had taken of Diane Duntley. I had no access to photos taken before I knew Diane, so the a...

The funeral for Diane Duntley was held in Christ Episcopal Church in Indiana, Pennsylvania. I paid a personal tribute to her, which I have r...

My friend Diane Duntley died recently, and I will be attending her funeral this afternoon. I will have more to say about Diane shortly. What...

The Second Amendment, at least insofar as it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court and has been treated as a political third rail by Con...

The lawn of Christ Episcopal Church in Indiana, Pennsylvania, hosts two sets of crosses today. On one side of the entrance are crosses repre...

Pre-COVID—will that become a common period designation?—I regularly attended the free wine tastings at a local liquor store. (For non-Pennsy...

Seldom do I miss an episode of American Experience  on PBS. These programs provide insights into both well-known and obscure corners of Amer...

Yesterday’s school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, coming as it did on the heels of the supermarket massacre in Buffalo, New York, made me sadder...

My post A Comprehensive Examination of the Abortion Question is admittedly lengthy. Realizing this, I thought it would be helpful to offer ...

People in hundreds of cities and towns were marching for abortion rights today. Indiana, Pennsylvania, is not a city large enough to rival t...

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, trying to counter the outrage over the possible overruling of Roe v. Wade , dismissed the fact that,...

It used to be common for proponents of legal abortion to assert that the procedure should be “safe, legal, and rare.” The word “rare” was me...