Lent brought me to my knees. I went back to work Tuesday distrustful. I walked to the subway Wednesday with my right knee only a little sore. I guess I am going to live. I did not give anything up for Lent, or add any practice. When my grandma died, the day after Ash Wednesday, […]
Read More SwimmingWe breathed the thick air of the jungle of Omaha, the day after Grandma’s funeral. There were fuzzy gibbons, one of them with a baby hooked to her, and we looked hard at the two of them, my mother, my sisters, me, us four. We walked through the butterfly house, watching our feet to not […]
Read More JungleAs I was driving to noon mass for the feast of St. John (in the beginning was the word, a phrase for which I took two years of ancient Greek to read), I realized there wouldn’t be any, because it was Saturday. This is a special day for writers, well, for me, I don’t know […]
Read More Soap And StonesWhen you sit next to a kid who tells you he wants to drop out of school, you worry a little about what to say, this is what makes some people praying people. “I know you can make money doing things that are illegal, but doesn’t pretty much everyone who’s doing that stuff eventually go […]
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