Things I Like

The ampersand. (J ust look at those curves.) Flowers. (Piece by Denise Gruenstein ) Calvin & Hobbes.  Languages and letters. Baths. Mou...

Things I don't like

I don't like clutter. I don't like cigarettes or their smoke. I don't like suburbs or housing developments. Illustration by the ...

in a box with a small package of explosives

There was a while when I stopped saying a prayer before eating. I did this because it seemed lame. Rote. Meaningless. Why again am I stoppin...

yay and yahoo.

Since I am a small-time blogger and don't really let anyone know that I even do this, I somehow feel okay confessing over cyberspace tha...

as a child

As a child I searched for you. There was the soft prayer necklace of the Catholic boy from my day care -- it hung around my neck, it hung ag...

Isaiah 49, as He spoke it to me.

Listen, people---even you far away people: GOD called me before I was born       and since I've been born He's been saying my name. ...

hugs and poop

Christmas day is for eating and opening presents and remembering the nativity and giving hugs and doing times tables, right? Well, that'...

Perfect & Immaculate

incubi notturni Today I went into my professor's office because there was one question that I thought was a little ambiguous. ...

Tenacious, dysfunctional, undependable me.

Two things: One. I'm a completely undependable person, especially to myself. There is no other person in the world that I hear so many e...

All of the Above.

Recently my adult life has taken an unexpected turn. An outsider couldn't observe it, but I've noticed it--deep in the reces...

the machete turned against me.

Just now--reading this book and thinking through these questions--I realize that I had such an opportunity last year in Oregon and I wasted ...

New Things (or, Chasing Kittens)

So I'm doing this thing where I step out of my (neatly organized and vacuumed) comfort zone and try things that I either have tried and...
 

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