Mark! Thanks for your email.  Justin has been on my mind almost every day in the past few months.  I am so grateful to have known him and the rest of you, Chesnuts.  I have two things to share.  The first is an article I wrote for the Papyrus that was printed a week after [...]

Last night Kurt Vonnegut died as a result of damage to his brain for a fall he had a week or so ago.  I’m about to finish Capote’s In Cold Blood, and after I plan on reading Breakfast of Champions.  This news makes me sad, as I yet have no really good reason to feel [...]

I’m currently watching the 2004 documentary The Fog of War.  After reading some of this, if you’re interested there’s a 2 minute clip on YouTube.  Robert McNamara just said one of the most chilling things I’ve ever heard about a conversation he had with Fidel Castro in 1992 about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: McNamara [...]

I hung out with Ian McDermott last night.  It was great.  I hadn’t seen him in several months which was at the Red Sea where his band was playing a show.  We went to Big V’s down on the Loop and had burgers and fries.  Well, I had fries, Ian upgraded his deluxe meal for [...]

“Come and die!” This call beckons us all No one escapes the emancipation of our souls from the tyranny of death and hell The weight of pain and suffering is like a boulder on our backs but now we’ve been given the strength to toss it off This is the burning bush, this is the [...]

Chester’s post inspired me.  To understand mine, you’ll prolly have to read his first.  So here it is unabridged: So, I’m back now. Camp was a blast but went by fast. I did find out that I get to go one more year since I will still be 21 when the first day of camp [...]