Empathy Lives In The Gray Area : Some Thoughts On Roe V Wade

The first time my wife and I became pregnant was April of 1998. We’d been trying to get pregnant for a year with no luck, but then it happened. We were ecstatic. We got married just two years prior, had built a house, both were gainfully employed, and were a pretty good aunt and uncle […]

Debussy, You’ve Made A Mess Of Me

Whenever I hear Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” I always get sad. Not because it’s such a beautiful piece of music(which it is), but for other reasons. Reasons I’ll explain momentarily. Way back 15 years ago, a day after we had our first child, I had called my grandma Hubner to tell her that she […]

Nineteen Years

The last twenty four hours I’ve thought a lot about friendships. You go through life and create many friendships. Some are tried and true, while others are great while they last but eventually fade. I have a very small handful of friends that I’ve known and loved since childhood. I would do anything for these […]

Holidaze

Man, it’s been quite the holiday freakout. It’s been a haze of paint fumes and Sauder manuals since last Saturday but it all came to a head on Tuesday night when everyone had moved into their own little corner of the world. I don’t think my son even remembers what it’s like to have space […]

Outsider Art

So it’s taken me years. It’s taken me many years before I’d consider myself an artist. I don’t know why, really. It’s just one of those things that I’d look at and think it’s just something I like to do in-between working a real job and paying bills and taking care of my family. It’s […]

“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”

I didn’t know her personally. I’d see her in passing in the halls of the elementary school for Open Houses or the school Carnival. She seemed like an artistic soul. Tattoos, piercings, and a look in her eyes that said she saw things in a much different way than the rest of us. My wife […]