An Angel Named Jack

July 29, 2012

July 1991. Flushing, New York. I was wakened by a hammering at the door. I jumped up, and quickly fell backward onto the couch. The clock flashed 9:21. I stood again,
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The Games

July 27, 2012

The year was 1976. America was celebrating its 200th birthday. Rocky was in theaters. And the Summer Olympics were on television, live from Canada. I was 11 and it was
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The Harbinger

July 26, 2012

A thick, motionless July evening. The cicadas in full voice. A yellow leaf wafts onto the lush grass from a canopy of green above. It’s a gentle reminder that the
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Sharing

Before I got into blogging I used to keep an electronic journal. A few times a week I’d open up a Word document and write about things that mattered to
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Great

July 24, 2012

When we were great, we believed we were blessed by a universal God. We were blessed by a universal God because we were a nation of different people from different
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The Problem with Perfection

July 19, 2012

“Everything is perfect.” In speaking with a friend who recently gave up Facebook, she cited this as the reason. That seemingly every post by every person she follows is filled
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Focus

July 18, 2012

This week I’ve been in one of those patterns where I can only focus for 15-minute intervals. Max. I don’t know why, but I just lose focus for no reason.
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Apache

7:18 pm in July The thunder passes and the clouds break The cicadas start to sing At a swimming pool in the South Children splashing and playing and doing the
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The Evil that Mad Men Do

July 16, 2012

According to my mother, advertising is evil. She cites false advertising as the culprit. “You see something in the newspaper and then you go to the store, and they do
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The Practice

July 13, 2012

In a world where we’re conditioned to think big and become giants, it’s easy to feel out of touch with the world. But if you don’t feel a sense of
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