Ghulf Genes

Five after thirteen, you might say—in annual time. Actually it will be five after in about a minute or so of clock time. The first month of...

The answer is, Today. Our natural tracking of the year is by the seasons, more or less—and if not season then by months, but we don’t get ve...

Last Sunday we entered a kind of Twilight Zone—and our visceral memories knew it. So did the batteries in the simple clock that hangs in our...

This time of years, resetting clocks, I’m sometimes reminded of the fact that Newfoundland, in Canada, has a time zone named after itself. I...

The year is done, but it is not the new dawn of a sacred time. It’s once again the ending of an ordinary year profane. We’ll zero out the ...