. . I am an unlikely fan of The Walking Dead. I don't like zombie stuff and I don't like horror. But this one is different. The Walking Dead has escaped both genres and has climbed to the stature of a modern myth. It has important lessons to...
[shareaholic app="share_buttons" id="21055334"] I have had an uneasy relationship with America for almost a decade. Before that I was as flag-waving as anyone else, and more than most. That changed when I began to see a world without borders. I spent some years feeling that we would...
[shareaholic app="share_buttons" id="21055334"] Not long ago, my teenaged twins and I did a catch up marathon and watched all of the last few Harry Potter movies. In the final part of that amazing series, Dumbledore was driven out of Hogwarts (killed), Voldemort's faithful had formed a...
I’m sitting here in a warm coffee shop on a Monday morning while my hometown of Boise, Idaho wakes up. It’s cold outside but this place is comfortable and friendly. It’s hard for me to believe that just outside these doors and across the “sweet land...
I only know one way to keep or regain a passion for life. The word is porous. Porous Permeable Able to be penetrated by Capable of being drenched all the way through Vulnerable There are as many ways of living as there are humans, but there are two main ways of being...
Irreducible by Jacob Nordby What's left of me cannot be reduced any further. This lump in my throat, this ache in my heart. The irreducible emptiness in bed next to me. This love and everything that I am and always have been, but am now carved down to...