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SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: We’re wearing masks… but the masks are coming off. - The caption on that photo (above): Pope Francis about to start extraordinary prayer in empty St. Peter’s Square for those suffering from the virus, their families and medical workers. That’s Rome.
Ten Videos: Because Looking May Trump Reading - If a picture is worth l,000 words, what are videos worth? Once I learned how to embed them in my pieces…..a lot. A video is not just sherbet between courses, a palate
The 2011 Head Butler Holiday Gift Guide - This year’s Head Butler holiday gift guide has several innovations. 1) There is a sermon, but I’m publishing it another day. [It's here.] 2) The gift list is shorter. In the manner
The 2012 Head Butler Holiday Gift Guide: Classics Edition - When I compiled the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, my focus was only on new stuff. Imagine my horror at 3 AM when a nightmare woke me --- the ghost of holidays
The 2015 Holiday Gift Guide - THE AMAZON LINK: There are now two ways to get to Amazon and support this site. The old: Click on the “Buy it from Amazon” link on any review and
The Beauty Part: Summer 2011 - Ugly sears. It seems to last forever. Beauty is evanescent. It seems to fade fast. 2011 has been a banner year for Ugly and its sidekick Stupid. And considering the ratio of Ugly
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The Best of Butler: August 2008 - You can feel the remnants of summer now. If you're like me, you want these gorgeous days to linger. At the same time, you can feel excitement in
The Best of Summer, 2012 - It’s that time again. My brood has stood guard over offices, camps and this little corner of the Web all summer, and now it’s our turn to flee. This year
The Best of the Best, 2007 - 'Tis the season when critics around the world serve up their Ten Best lists. For HeadButler.com, that's kind of impossible. The mission of this site is to pick through the dross, the
The Book of Mormon - “The Book of Mormon” is still in previews, but you don’t have to be a genius to know it’s going to be a monster hit. Correction: It already is. Never
The Cholita Climbers - I don’t know how I found the video, but it imprinted deeply --- when I feel weary in spirit or body, I try to turn my thoughts to these women,
The French Way - There was a State dinner for French President François Hollande, and all that American media found of interest was his inability to bring a date --- hardly surprising, as Hollande
The Fugees - Maybe it was the anticipation of the Colts-Patriots playoff game. Maybe it was that no song lyric was on permanent repeat in my head. Whatever the
The Head Butler 2012 Holiday Gift Guide - With winter upon us, the child’s school had a coat drive. We had none to give. Then a package arrived. Coats. My wife had bought them online, on sale, so
The Joys of Late Summer, 2009 - Was there a summer this year? Oh, I saw the commercials for Bud Light Lime, the three most terrifying words of the season. (Second prize: Obama’s birth certificate.) But it rained
The State of My Union: “I was so much older then/ I’m younger than that now.” - The President is delivering his State of the Union report. I’m not watching. It did occur to me that this would be a good time to present the state of my union.
The State of the Union (The 2012 Head Butler Annual Report) - Did the holiday zoom by for you too? I remember the child standing on the hood of the car and guiding the tree through the sunroof, and then it was New
