Rolling flat onto his back, Drake shuddered. Then he inhaled deeply. He stared up at the night sky. We're going to win, he said, his voice calmer, less strained. This is nothing. Keep going. They can'...

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either, I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

Death walks among us

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religi...

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.

To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Yes, we have different viewpoints represented among us, she continued. Yes, we have a displacer in our number, and a half giant, and a seedman who publicly disgraced us.She's talking about you, Drake...

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away th...

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.

One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people the...

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination....

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.