Friday, February 24, 2006
Almost-Not Anniversary
If I hadn’t been born in Brooklyn… If I hadn’t left Texas… If I hadn’t opened that phonebook… If I hadn’t gotten that job… If I hadn’t made friends at work… If it hadn’t been Friday... If I hadn’t lived so close... If it hadn’t been so early in the evening... If you hadn’t seen James Bond as a...
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
An Atheist is Born
A beautiful morning was cut short for me by an appearance of my principal at the classroom door. Until that moment, even though I sometimes doubted the existence of a deity, I always retained a shred a faith that one existed and that the primary purpose was to see that the universe evened out, that...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
too sick to write...see you again soon
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Passing
Passing is easy to do when you're in a crowd of Christians. If you don't look too Semitic, you can easily get away with saying nothing. If you do look Semitic, it helps to have an Italian last name. I'm married to an Italian, so now I'm nearly invisible as everyone assumes I'm Italian. While...
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
Eternal Life
The anesthesia was beginning to wear off. I had had a baby tooth extracted to make way for a grownup tooth and I was washing my face in an attempt to get back to full consciousness. My mother followed me into the bathroom at the dentist's office. "I have to tell you something," she said, somberly....
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Unconditional Love (and not from a deity)
A million stars, twinkling above as the gentle rocking of the car lulls me to sleep...we are on our way to Aunt Viola and Uncle Henry's, driving from Milwaukee to Northern Wisconsin near Waussau. They live on a little lake called Spider Lake, in a house so far from the road that you'd be better off...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
"Really!!!"
Working together on a common poetry/drama project, a colleague commented to me about my spirituality. "You must be a Christian," she said. "No, actually." "Well, you certainly are a spiritual person." "Thank you." Better than the many who asked incredulously, "You're not a Christian?" For them, it...
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Monday, February 13, 2006
Athena’s Arrested Rebirth
In the first reaches of suburban Allentown, Pennsylvania, the concept suburban was defined in a backwater way. It meant you had to ride your bike a half a mile to get to any type of store to buy candy, and you’d need to take some dangerous two-lane roads. While riding for this treasure, I would hold...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006
You know...
You know, she said, this single mother joined the temple and found she had family at last. I have family, I answered, fully understanding. I have my friends who are often more family than my blood family. I have my parents who couldn't love me more if they tried. I have you, your daughter, my uncle,...
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Faith
I have faith that the sun will shine tomorrow, faith in the readiness of my sons' smiles, faith in the rock of my parents' love faith in my resilience. I have faith in the kernel of good inside the most devilish soul, faith in the ability of people to change, sometimes for the worse, faith in the...
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