Fifteen years ago today, on what would have been my dad’s 56th birthday (Happy Birthday, dad, I miss you), under a window-rattling thunder clap, the most beautiful woman in the city said “I do” when asked if she would marry me.
The thunder was a nice touch. Even the gods were celebrating the union of soul-mates. Or maybe the [...]
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Maybe I’m Amazed
Fifteen years ago today, on what would have been my dad’s 56th birthday (Happy Birthday, dad, I miss you), under a window-rattling thunder clap, the most beautiful woman in the city said “I do” when asked if she would marry me.
The thunder was a nice touch. Even the gods were celebrating the union of soul-mates. Or maybe the [...]
Walking with Angels
1 in 69 in Huntsville City Schools. 1 in 69.
That’s the number of kids who are on the Autism Spectrum right now. Nationally that number is around 1 in every 110, which is significantly higher than the 1 in 150 number we heard when our boy was first diagnosed in 2007.
Today some one thousand people turned out at Milton Frank Stadium in [...]
What Christmas is All About
Emma sharing toys with her new baby brother.
As I suspect every parent (and frankly anyone over the age of about 10) can tell you, parenting is hard. When things go wrong with your kids, you may not admit it to others, but you know it’s entirely your fault. When things go right, again, you might take some credit publicly, but you know that yo [...]
Birth of a Liberal
Because I’m cursed with introspection and curious (like my namesake) about how people change, I’ve often tried to nail down the start of my transformation from fundamentalist to whatever radical leftist label you want to assign to me today. (I choose Liberal, myself.) I think it began to happen my first semester in college at Geo [...]
Definitions: Deism
Okay, so it’s time for a few definitions about what some of us have been discussing. Feel free to join in. Socrates once said, “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” The more people involved, the easier it is to pass the fire.
SO: Let’s start with easy ones.
Deism: John Hick says that dei [...]
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