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Jun 9, 20192 min read
You Ever Had This One?
You know those nights where you’re walking up the street with your wife and the tornado siren goes off? When the storm whips up and you...
Feb 18, 20192 min read
Thunder
Excuse me while I nerd out hard for a second. So it’s a couple years old, but there is a ridiculous video making the rounds today of a...
Dec 21, 20182 min read
You Can Breathe Here
My daughter told me existence was too big for her. She is ten years old and is overwhelmed by the inevitability of death, the seeming...
May 6, 20182 min read
The River
I think when you create a work of art, it belongs to the human race. I don’t mean from a legal perspective – I’m not talking about...
Mar 22, 20182 min read
All Good Things
A friend of mine announced today that he has pancreatic cancer and is in hospice. And in that bombshell of a sentence, the word I debated...
Jul 21, 20172 min read
The Wrong Question
“How did the universe begin?” That’s the question, right? Science tries to answer it. Religion tries to answer it. Where did we come...
Mar 14, 20173 min read
One Last Song
We’ve all heard near-death experience stories. A very common experience seems to be “heading toward the light.” I don’t believe in an...
Jan 25, 20175 min read
Faith in Humanity
“I’ve lost my faith in humanity.” I hear this all the time. It used to be a sarcastic remark. These days, more and more often, people...
Jan 20, 20171 min read
Forward
Against a universe of infinite death, we were born in the sea. Against a place of nightmares, wrought in magma and ash, we bore children....
Dec 7, 20166 min read
The Tsunami
I read an article in the National Journal this morning (thank you C. Bates, an intelligent person from a different political and...
May 10, 20161 min read
Dandelions
Dandelions are our constant enemy in the back yard, you know, a nice suburban lawn is not supposed to have a bunch of weeds all over it....
Mar 5, 20167 min read
Yes, Honey, Anything. Anything At All.
A full-throated defense of instilling drive in our children. There’s a growing trend in parenting, and it really bugs me. That trend is...
Feb 19, 20162 min read
Cycles
It is raining today, which I would normally find comforting, except that the rain is falling onto snow banks. As I pet my cat I explain...
Jun 6, 20143 min read
A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Dance
My daughter graduates preschool today. She’s excited for Kindergarten and thrilled to be a big girl. But she’s also sad that she won’t...
Mar 3, 20145 min read
Uploading Your Brain
A year or so ago I had a little argument with a couple friends of mine about whether human consciousness could be transferred into a...
Feb 28, 20146 min read
The Constant Discontent
The following is a paraphrased version of a true conversation I had with my son this past weekend at the Mall of America. “I want Drilla...
Feb 25, 20145 min read
The Reasons
I’m an extremely introspective person, nearly to a fault. When I was working a normal day job, I was able to keep my darker musings...
Dec 20, 20133 min read
Funerals
They come out of nowhere; even when you expect them, they’re unexpected. Every now and again, our regular lives are disrupted, and we’re...
Jan 23, 20124 min read
Can atheists be spiritual?
When I was in my teens, I took a church class with my grandmother where the teacher, one Greg Boyd, explained how he had spent several...
Dec 8, 20112 min read
Grow up, but don’t
There is a fundamental conflict in parenting, and from the moment my first child was born, it has eaten away at me. The conflict is...
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