U2: I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight Joel and Nathan can’t figure why I like U2 so much. Sometimes, I can’t tell, either. Sometimes their music echoes too spindly into space, unwinds itself into vacant confusion…but other times, it releases the very chord that’s been vibrating, twanging at you all day.
U2: I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight Joel and Nathan can’t figure why I like U2 so much. Sometimes, I can’t tell, either. Sometimes their music echoes too spindly into space, unwinds itself into vacant confusion…but other times, it releases the very chord that’s been vibrating, twanging at you all day.
Everyone’s a Victim This homeschooling mother from Texas thinks homeschoolers a poorly treated minority: “It appears that one type of person you can stridently criticize and insult these days with impunity is me, a Christian homeschooler,” she says. Well, I homeschooled and was homeschooled. I think she’s wrong. People treat homeschoolers much less gingerly than before. In the 1980s, homeschooling… Read more →
Everyone’s a Victim This homeschooling mother from Texas thinks homeschoolers a poorly treated minority: “It appears that one type of person you can stridently criticize and insult these days with impunity is me, a Christian homeschooler,” she says. Well, I homeschooled and was homeschooled. I think she’s wrong. People treat homeschoolers much less gingerly than before. In the 1980s, homeschooling… Read more →
A Year in ReviewApparently people do read this. So, just for you: I went through my personal journals from the past year and collected a few snippets, one from each month, to close this. January 28I am so bloody mad I could burst. I’m so mad I could eat a tree—gnaw right through its crusty bark and sap-filled rings like… Read more →
A Year in ReviewApparently people do read this. So, just for you: I went through my personal journals from the past year and collected a few snippets, one from each month, to close this. January 28I am so bloody mad I could burst. I’m so mad I could eat a tree—gnaw right through its crusty bark and sap-filled rings like… Read more →
Unexpected Graces When you thank God you are too emotionally spent to cry but still actually not too tired to write papers; which is good, because you have twenty pages to go . . . When people care enough to ask, and stay to hear the answer . . . Knowing you’re never alone . . . when it’s all… Read more →
Unexpected Graces When you thank God you are too emotionally spent to cry but still actually not too tired to write papers; which is good, because you have twenty pages to go . . . When people care enough to ask, and stay to hear the answer . . . Knowing you’re never alone . . . when it’s all… Read more →
Draw Your Own Conclusion This morning, I awoke at 7:20 and obstinately plummeted back onto my red pillow because the alarm had not yet gone off. At 7:35, the alarm went off like it always does and I, after the weirdest dream in which my news editor was threatening to kill my already-dead little brother, popped up, grabbed my towel,… Read more →
Draw Your Own Conclusion This morning, I awoke at 7:20 and obstinately plummeted back onto my red pillow because the alarm had not yet gone off. At 7:35, the alarm went off like it always does and I, after the weirdest dream in which my news editor was threatening to kill my already-dead little brother, popped up, grabbed my towel,… Read more →
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