I haven’t posted anything for about a week, and I know that I’ve left unreturned various emails and such from some of you for well over two weeks. I’ve had my head down, nose to the grindstone, and all that working on my application to Seattle Pacific’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Most of the …
Monthly Archives: September 2006
A Fiction Stranger Than Fact
I’m not sure why, but this story which clearly debunks the idea that there’s a face on the surface of Mars deflated me a bit today. Yes, there are many wondrous and mysterious features of our universe to fire the imagination, but the cold, hard truth of this one seems colder and harder to me …
Some Great Reward
Or, “How BP Screws Both You and the Environment in One Fell Swoop” So, in 1994 Sherry and I got a BP Visa card, and it has been our main CC ever since. It was one of the earlier “rewards” cards, and it provided us with “free” gas as a reward for using the card. …
The Luzhin Defence (2001)
I understand why Peter Jackson would make a derivitively original film and slap a Lord of the Rings label on it: sadly, Tolkien has a huge fanbase that will slurp up whatever swill you put in front of it. What I don’t understand is why Marleen Gorris and Peter Berry would use the same strategy …
Danger! Danger!
Each year I’m alarmed at the number of deaths that occur in the families of freshman college students. However, this fall the toll seems to be especially high. We’re barely into week 4, and already there have been three deaths in my one section of 21 students. In addition, Sherry seems to have had a …
Pentecost B15
Isaiah 50:4-9 Psalm 116: 1-8 James 2:1-5, 14-18 Mark 8:27-38 The period after Pentecost is usually given over to lessons about Christian living; sometimes it’s called “Ordinary Time,†that part of the year when we’re not in a specially celebratory or penitential mood. And, properly, it is here that we hear the hardest lessons of …
9/11/2006
Five years ago I walked into a classroom in northeast Georgia at 9:00am. Neither my students or I knew anything about what was going on in NYC, Washington D.C., or Pennsylvania. We spent an hour learning about argumentative moves used in writing. We walked out of the classroom an hour later to a changed world. …
Tiffin’s Nate Washington Scores!
Nate Washington’s first regular season NFL reception was a big one. Late in the first quarter, Washington went down the right side of the field, turned around, leapt, and brought down a well-thrown ball from back-up QB Charlie Batch. Washington held onto the ball as he came down in the endzone for a touchdown, putting …
Out on the Deep Blue
“Maybe the real thing that kept me awake was thinking about the galley door being shut, and how that was an accident, not a sign of prudent thinking, and about the random way things happened out there and how depsite any skill you might have on deck or how much you thought you knew about …
Disc Flyers have low Ego Emissions!
When I removed The Ego Emissions Index from the my latest New Yorker, I initially had very little interest in this monstrous insert that interfered with the proper operation of my magazine’s pages. However, as I flipped through it, something caught my eye: flying discs have a very low ego emission. In fact, the kind …
