After seeing what ignorance can do to a country with the Brexit vote, I woke up this morning and decided that come November I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. I do not want to vote for her. I do not want to vote for either candidate. Neither have good ideas. In The Republic, by Plato, he talks about how a functioning Republic requires unbiased leadership. Leadership that wants for nothing. Not fame. Not money. Nothing. Leaders should be philosophers. Because only…
My oldest daughter is part of a church youth group. They’ve been building a Habitat House at the church for weeks, and on Sunday they drove a big truck and a bunch of high school kids to John’s Island, SC (near Charleston) to assemble the structure. This is her and her friends getting ready to leave Charlotte. She’s the one on the left. On Monday they started work, and accomplished a lot. She even made a new friend. After work on Tuesday, the…
There’s something about being a writer that doesn’t conform to social norms. Namely, that in order for us to do our jobs, we have to be completely alone. No writer writes, listens, and talks concurrently. Over the years, I’ve worked in plenty of places where this doesn’t sit well. As a result, I’ve been labeled a recluse or renegade, despite crafting effective messages that mobilize audiences to act favorably. For some of us, this idea of isolation seamlessly spills over into our regular life…
It was a routine Tuesday night when the President broke in to tell us that the world was ending.
Write what you know, they say. In my book Minor King, I rail on everything from the rich, the poor, politics, religion, corporate corruption, insurance companies, but mostly–the little guy getting screwed over. The Machine, I call it. Every year I get a physical. It’s a privilege from paying thousands of dollars a year in health insurance, co-pays, and annual deductibles. Sure, I needed insurance recently with the trip to the ER, but mostly we just use insurance for checkups and…
Sometimes, when I see someone young and beautiful, I think that underneath that makeup, and those clothes, and that hair, and skin, and cartilage and muscle, there’s a skull. And all skulls look mostly the same regardless of ethnicity, gender, beauty, or age.
