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sexuality

20 Feb

Rats and Beauty

We all have places in our lives we know aren’t beautiful, including at least a few places that are just down right ugly. When we come face to face with . . .

06 Feb

Interpreting Shapes

Before all time, God hovered over the abyss, brooding. We don’t know for how long. In a world of time, it may have been eons. Like an artist before a . . .

15 Jan

Honoring the Ache

Every age has its own set of unquestioned presuppositions. Here’s one in our day: Getting what you want quickly is better than having to wait.This is why advertisers boast of . . .

05 Dec

Come Clean

It’s in our stories, movies, and legends. In Shakespeare’s MacBeth, Edgar Allan Poe’s Telltale Heart, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. We feel it in our bones. It’s in our DNA. When . . .

08 Nov

Now What?

Tuesday, Maryland and Maine became the first two states in the U.S. to legalize homosexual marriage by a vote of the people. I’m among the 48% of Marylanders who voted . . .

13 Jul

Chucking Megaphones

I’m guessing you’ve seen this before: A young kid shouting or singing through a cardboard paper-towel roll, projecting his voice through the house, when the inevitable happens. He slips over . . .

29 Jun

Spin

I remember as a teenager taking a corner too fast on a snowy road in my step-dad’s car. The car spun out of control and slammed into the side of . . .