Happy Birthday Mom
My mother’s birthday is a few days after mine on the 30th, so we’ve always been birthday buddies—though she’s usually pretty happy to let me take the spotlight for myself.
I Will Always Love You—Taylor, Dolly, And The End of An Era
If I met some of my longtime friends today, would they like who I am now? Would I even be me now without the parts of me that are them?
Your Best American Girl
My little sister recently moved to Berlin, inciting long phone calls on what it’s like to be an American abroad and how to understand one’s identity when away from home. One particular subject we’ve been discussing at length is our responses to negative perceptions of...
The Top Ten Reasons To Visit Put-In-Bay
Are you sitting at home searching for where to go for your next weekend get-away? Where to have a memorable bachelorette party? Where to find an affordable swim-up-bar?
One Year Later: A Reflection on Teaching from Someone Without an Education Degree
Looking back on those lesson plans, I want to bury my head in a ditch.
Patiently Waiting for My FedEx Delivery
The time: 9:30 a.m.
The setting: my living room.
The characters: a 26 year old young lady with a broken laptop, an age unknown FedEx delivery person named Kevin.
In Pursuit
I couldn’t even wait for the whole square of chocolate to melt before crunching what was left of it.
The Jesus and John Wayne Series: Freyanity
I’m one guy. I can’t singlehandedly excise the many poisonous ideas that have tainted the Christian faith down to its deepest roots.
Ecofascism and Rock Music at Five Guys
So life is like a verb. It’s like acting, like moving, like being, like wanting, like connecting, like paying attention, like loving. It’s none of these things and all of them.
Taipei 101 and a Brief Meditation on the Impressive
I spy it crossing a bridge on a bus back into the city from the east; I climb a nearby mountain and it dominates the skyline; I walk to work and am pleasantly surprised to see the spire peeking over the tops of the trees at Da’an Park.
