Category: Musings
Turn Cruelty Into Kindness
It was my eighth grade year. The teachers had a fantastic idea. In order to teach us young punks about racism, they were going to try the “brown eye/blue eye” experiment. Essentially, this meant that in the morning, everyone who had brown eyes would be treated really well. In the afternoon, people with blue eyes […]
The Best Gift You Can Give
You know how when you’re a little kid, the dark corners of your room can seem really scary? Those spots under your bed, that shadow the door leaves on your floor, that little nook in the wall near your closet – they all seem like great places for monsters and bogey men. After a lot […]
The Two Rules I Live By
When you come right down to it, my life is guided by two principles. 1. Do no harm to others. 2. Do not sit in silence while others meet harm. There are no reasonable exceptions to either rule. Whether it is your friend or your enemy, and whether that person is on the receiving end […]
We Define Abilities, Choices Define Us
I decided to plop down for some much deserved relaxation (if I might say) to discover that the Family Channel, in an effort to count down to its 25-day countdown to Christmas, is showing yet another Harry Potter marathon. There’s nothing too spectacular about that – it seems they show a Potter marathon every month […]
The Wooden Toy and the Real Life Boy
A week ago, I announced that I was going to be backing away from social media a bit. Not entirely, but certainly not doing as much as I have done for the last year and a half. The reaction to my sentiments has been entirely surprising to me. Not only have people been so kind […]
On Noticing When Things Smell Bad
Around the time that I got into high school, there was a noticeable height disparity between me and my cohorts. The height ratio was such that, well, how can I put this delicately. Where upon someone wouldst cut the cheese walking to class, I would be one of the first to smell it. I would […]