While some people can easily accept an answer, some of us need to scrape it together, roll it into a ball, toss it around for a bit, reshape it a few times and probably lick it while you're not … Read more about Sometimes a Revolution Isn’t the Best Solution
Question (and a short post)
So I've realized something about myself... and in an effort to start interacting with y'all more frequently AND to actually post things that don't take me three weeks to think through and find … Read more about Question (and a short post)
Hey you– you’re worth more than your failures, too.
I was talking with a friend yesterday...He's got a good job, a great laugh, monstrously awful luck at picking out girlfriends, and some bad choices that have become bad habits. He is, in short, … Read more about Hey you– you’re worth more than your failures, too.
Fantasia is dying because you have stopped dreaming
G'mork: Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy.Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no … Read more about Fantasia is dying because you have stopped dreaming
Bodyguarding Jesus?
The firm for which I work had a large event recently, and we've been having a number of celebrities around. Saturday and Sunday I got to work Security for one of these celebrities, a kind, older … Read more about Bodyguarding Jesus?
Hey.
I'm still here. I've heard a lot of stories from people in the last several weeks... good stories, stories that hurt, stories that made us both cry, stories with testimonies of healing and … Read more about Hey.
On Rape and Stories and the Weight of Glory
I think the tongue is the worst part. In those moments, a million details are falling rapidly through your mind from and to every direction: your own anger that he thinks this this is … Read more about On Rape and Stories and the Weight of Glory
Everywhere is the sorrow and the pain
Monday was -6 in Chicago (with windchill). It was cold. Freezing. Below freezing. The red line to the blue line (underground transfer), the two minute walk to … Read more about Everywhere is the sorrow and the pain
I’m not Scrooge, but…
I'm not a fan of Christmas. In America. As celebrated by mass displays of consumerism and greed. Etc. I don't know when it started, probably around … Read more about I’m not Scrooge, but…