“See that mountain over there? Well, one of these days I’m gonna climb that mountain.” – Mountain Music, by Alabama This song came out in 1982, the year I turned 18. It must have been pretty popular because it seeped…
He took a long swig of beer, crushed the can, and discarded it in the yard. Then he lit a cigarette and motioned for us to get into the car. It was a summer afternoon. Sweat glistened on our skin…
Is there anything more featureless than being a white, middle-class, heterosexual American male? There’s nothing controversial for us to fight for. Our job is to do our part to keep the species moving forward, and, thanks to religion and politics…
All young people should get a blog. I don’t care whether it’s a custom-hosted blog like this one, Medium, or Tumblr, teenagers should be documenting their ideas and experiences online in long form. A friend shared an unfortunate story with…
Few things on earth are as fertile as a child’s imagination, or as fragile as a little girl’s heart. She was 7. Whenever we’d poll the family as to what we should watch on movie night, she’d say Titanic. Every…
