Attendance Check
Swapping cigarettes, jabs, chips, they drift like Rockaway waves from the boys home into the classroom, ninth graders no one would bet on, discarded by split parents. The deck of misfortune they inherited keeps shoving... Read More
The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason”
The following is an excerpt from Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided by Ronald Aronson (Counterpoint Press, 2008) Belonging to an impatient culture promising instant answers, often poorly equipped... Read More
Against Optimism
It’s a lonely fight, no more so than when the broken rhododendron--an ancient spidery thing just off the back porch-- flares for two fiery weeks each May, so scarlet and profuse, so labial, well, it... Read More
Paradiso
Paradiso No blue grocery bags rustle from the lindens lining the freshly paved avenues. No women stop before windows to stare at mannequins blank as angels. A dog barks from a rose garden. Motor scooters... Read More
Of Crows
The beauty of crows should not be forgotten. When colored bullets race down the road's black veins, Their short, broad wings deliver them skyward. A crow's tastes are unsentimental, a testament To the infinite hunger... Read More
This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting
Dear Jim, I finally got your letter enclosing Your letter enclocussing your letter which was so ompportant foe me, thannkouk yuon very much. In time This fainful bsiness will will soonfeul will soon Be onert.Tnany... Read More
What’s So Great about Christianity
THE PREDICTABLE backlash is now underway. In response to the popular atheist books of Susan Jacoby, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, we find that Regnery Publishing, "the nation's leading conservative publisher,"... Read More