“About half of all humans ever born died before the age of five.” – John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis we are small likely to take a knee to the face as the others rush to heaven the after place so much after, for us, and precious little before precious little, even if dreaded, if the […]
Read More the children“Let’s see it,” I said the day after my student got his first tattoo. It was a nice grisly tattoo, suggesting to the viewer that death was not to be feared, though when I looked at it, lo, I felt fearful. “It hurt right here,” he said. “This part didn’t hurt. Look how it’s shaded.” […]
Read More offeringJanuary 6th always meant moving our Three Kings into our nativity scene. It meant sermons about how Jesus was for everyone, not just the people in that part of the world. (I would currently state that Christ is for everyone, though many people see Christ in trees, the Buddha, and their dogs.) I was pretty […]
Read More the time of the seasonStory: my friend had a mouse infestation. She had cleaned up this mouse mess on her own several times, but the mice had returned. Her apartment management company has been a complete dick about it, blaming her, refusing to do any pest control. I gathered with a couple of do-gooders and we donned tyvec suits […]
Read More December Stories part Deux
Going On 