For Lent this past year, I decided I was going to give up getting mad in traffic. Took me a week or so to get in that groove. Unorthodox, yes, and perhaps not exactly the sort of spirituality people are typically going for, but I’d done all of the vices/habits, and didn’t feel like I … Read more
Last night in evening stop-and-go traffic, I noticed that the woman behind me was smoking a cigarette—but as stealthily as she could. She would duck down to take a drag and inhale, and only pop back up when she was about halfway through her exhale. I immediately felt for her. She was 40ish, probably a … Read more
I got about as heavy a shot of Roman Catholicism as any Protestant kid ever gets, I reckon. I went to Catholic school. It was only for three years—fifth through seventh grade—but that’s plenty enough to get “the plot,” as George Costanza once put it. Middle school kids don’t have much to keep up with, … Read more