The Boy Inside the Man
Our phone rang at exactly 3:55 AM. It rang with one of those Dad something bad has happened rings I hadn’t heard in the ten years since our youngest son said goodbye to teenage angst and hello to twenty-something aimlessness. Thankfully the aimlessness finally eased as he joined the Army , found a wife and fathered the most perfect grandchild in the world. The second ring snatched me from the world of dead sleep...
The Sun Goes Up And The Sun Goes Down
Our generation thinks in dis-jolted and unwilling sound bytes; what will solve the economic problem is our discombobulated short-term memory. The best stimulus package–and the cheapest–is if we throw our TVs into the oceans and go about our daily business, creating, producing, buying and selling, eating and drinking, and falling in love. “The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place...
February 25, 2009
Filed under Earth, Economy, Essays and Commentary
Our Son?
“We can’t let any more of our sons and daughters die in a needless war.” Have you have you ever noticed how people who never played a down of football say things like “we won a hard fought game last Saturday?” If that bothers an athlete can your imagine how I feel when I hear someone railing about “our sons” in Iraq or Afghanistan? My first response is always the same: “And...
February 24, 2009
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Gumballs and Lemon Drops: The Pre-HOA Era
Once upon a time … it was a time of gumballs and lemon drops. Before Blagojevich, Edwards, and Spitzer. Before OBL. Children (well, high schoolers) listened to Def Leppard and Metallica while the Christian Right dubbed it “devil-music”; Ferris Bueller eluded convicted sex offender Jeffrey Jones (the principal) while Molly Ringwald and Emilio Esteviz captured our hearts and youthful lust for independence...
January 31, 2009
Filed under Essays and Commentary
