The bathroom is long and narrow and has a raised ‘altar’ at the far end where the toilet sits. The odd placement is necessitated by the semi-basement’s lower position in relation to the septic tank. Ki-Woo walks in and climbs onto the toilet seat. He continues to fish for a sign...
Lost seems to disprove my theory. Lost's pilot episode begins with a plane crash. You can't start off with much more of a bang than that. However, Lost finds the perfect balance between conflict and character building (remember, J.J. Abrams got his break in television with the show Fel...
Somewhere along the way she had stopped long enough to start a family. “I had a husband once, from Puerto Rico, but he’s gone now. He gave me eight kids! So why was she not with them? “I don’t know where they all are now. Two of them, a boy and a girl, are with me...
how she sweated in the shadows while he flashed his smile and took his bows. Everything always went off, just like magic, and he always managed to vanish by the time her raging headache set in, forcing her to lie in a dark room with a cold cloth over her eyes. ...
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”–Mary Oliver This week in Nashville, we have woken up to unicorn weather, mid-70’s in June. I’ve lived here for 7 1/2 years, and such weather feels unprecedented. It also clashed discordantly with my...
The clouds must have parted momentarily, because a large shaft of light splits the water. I start toward it just as the depths are filled with a great crash, bubbles rising and bursting. As the small pockets of air dissipate, I see it. ...
What legion could defeat the heavenly forces of the Creator? Instead, God chose to go and be present with his people in their struggles. God sent his divine son to live as his people lived–as a human. Jesus would start where all people start, and grow as all people grow, I believe,...
I’m woken by a blast of cold air. I sit bolt upright. That’s not right. The tent is never cold. I mean, never, not even in the depths of winter with snow piled up knee-deep outside. The rain drums so hard on the roof, it’s like the Sky Spirits are pelting us with ...
“I am an idiot”, I recall a fellow colleague who used to start her mornings with this proclamation prior to attempting to teach quantum physics. Perhaps it was just her own humble way of coping with the grandeur of particle and universal wave energy. Each day, over the last fifteen year...
Deepwoken by Vows by the Sea on Roblox, is an immersive paid access game that constantly challenges the player to explore and adapt to new obstacles. However, it can be difficult to learn because of its sharp learning curve towards...