Happiness through misdirection
I suppose it’s rare in this day and age to have enlightening, intellectually stimulating conversations with people who hold different beliefs than you. But it happened. And it has stuck with me. The person I was talking to is a Christian, a liberal Christian, who was raised in the faith and who has built her…
I was looking at my laptop, browsing books, ready to order something. Our older son asked me what I was doing. I told him I was going to order a book that would hopefully arrive in a few days. “But you don’t read books,” he said. I managed to hold back my tears. Our kids…
I don’t mean that the album is transitional, I mean that the album is the perfect encapsulation of being a teenager, perhaps more specifically a white boy not living in a city. I would love to think that my teen years were grunge, but that’s probably more the romanticized view than anything else. The reality…
My brother versus Top 40 Like most kids, I grew up listening to Top 40. I listened to Casey Kasem’s (and later, Rick Dees’) countdown show every Sunday, if I could. My parents listened to a lot of ABBA and Neil Diamond, so that was always in the peripheral. That was pretty much how it…
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