What Should a Person Believe?

After God’s dead, no one’s watching

Gone swimmin’

Taking a slip down memory flume.

Bint Ehid, or That Time I Felt Like a Bad Arab

At age twelve, there’s a chain letter that your friends e-mail in brightly…

I. Reading English with Chanachur*

Read at your own risk, because there is no telling where it could land you. 

Childhood is almost synonymous with unlimited free time. And I used to use some of it to read anything that…

III. Bad Water or How I Tripled My German Vocabulary

Achtung, Krauts and Tommies

I stopped using water for three days. Wouldn’t you too if you knew that the water was bad? Then it dawned on me that something may have been lost in translation. You…

II. Because The Sun Also Rises

Or This Could Have Been The First Chapter

My wife insists that an idle mind is a devil’s workshop. So she finally convinced me to try my hand at writing. But I had underestimated the complications.

How Living with No Internet or Television Lead to a Rediscovered Love of Books

In an increasing…

10 words that moved my 2013

It was a year of tiny but significant actions

Tabitha King, I’m Sleeping With Your Husband—Again

Just so you know

Dear Mrs. King,

I have a confession to make: I sleep with your husband, Stephen King every night. Just thought I would let you know. Now I don’t want you to think…

The Precariousness of Third Grade Political Science 

It may have only been third grade, but…