In Language . . .
08.31.2007
I like accents of all kinds. They make language interesting. And I'm always slightly jealous of people who have accents. For some reason, I never developed one. The standard response from people when I tell them I grew up in Texas is . . .
12.01.2006
As we got closer to the metal detectors, a TSA agent made an important announcement.
05.30.2006
I think this stems from a fact about writing that many writers, including me, don't like to admit: We don't actually like to write.
03.01.2006
It seems like I've been posting a lot lately about communicating without words. Of course, it's always a strange subject to write about because you actually have to use words to do it. Which means there's no effective way to do it. (Which also means I should probably not even try.)
In College . . .
03.12.2008
Last week, I stepped out of my comfort zone a bit and joined a group called Thirty-Something Bloggers.
02.20.2007
One way to measure a lifetime is by how much forgetting you do, and how well you do it.
05.09.2006
Last weekend we went down to Lexington, Virginia for my 10-year college reunion.
In Chewing . . .
11.03.2008
Despite what you may have heard, I am not a dog. I walk upright. I understand the truth about mirrors. I'm a reasonably intelligent guy. And I can do any number of tricks. But I've got these mistakes I keep making. I've made them as long as I can remember, and I've yet to learn the trick of how to stop.
09.30.2008
My friend Steph once told me she thought I was "well grounded." I thought she was crazy for saying that since I was the most ungrounded person I knew. But I never argued with her about it. I liked that she saw something else in me and I let her.
09.11.2008
I decided to pay David a visit last weekend and find out why his blog had been silent for the past month. The site had gone dark, and it had me worried. I went armed with a pen and a pocket-sized pad to take notes. I didn't know what I would find. But I knew there was a possibility it wouldn't smell very good.
07.17.2008
I'd like to think that God had the best of intentions when he created chipmunks. But even God has days when he feels a little ornery, and all he feels like doing is kicking back and letting off some steam. So he invites Old Scratch over to his place and they smoke a couple of bowls and play a little XBox. And, over a heated game of Madden 2010 (they get advance copies of software) they think up ways to piss people off, or ruin Jason Lee's career.
06.18.2008
And as I did it, I thought it would probably be tragic for my dad to watch me fall to my death while using the housewarming gifts he bought me. And it would have been. Tragic. But it didn't happen that way. That's not how I got bruised.
04.28.2008
And I keep thinking that maybe one day I'll peel back that one final layer and I'll be able to see clearly and say with some authority that this, this is Clarence ... but the bottom line is I will never know this man. I will die and he will remain a mystery to me.
03.25.2008
If you look closely at the backyard of your soul, you'll find a shed. And it's something you've gazed at a million times before and it's always remained closed and mysterious, and surrounded by ice. Familiar, but strange. Holding so much promise, but surrounded by challenge and danger.
03.12.2008
Last week, I stepped out of my comfort zone a bit and joined a group called Thirty-Something Bloggers.
03.04.2008
And, on the other side, Harleys rumbling in the parking lot. Tattoos on display. Double D moms with "Don't Be Jealous" t-shirts. Suburban grey-beard banker bikers, bandana'd and leather-vested and flaunting their mid-life crises a month or two early.
02.22.2008
There are a million and one reasons not to do something. But they all usually amount to one thing: fear. And let me just say that I've got some of the fear and some of the dread when it comes to this thing I've started, "Fiction Fridays."
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