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This Free Bird

Shake your money maker

This morning I shook the dust off my bike and hauled it downstairs for a spin. Knowing full well that after three months of slacking ‘spin’ likely meant around the block (if I was lucky), I hopped on and took off. Sort of. Okay not…

October 28, 2015

On hearing God

Last month I had to go to jury duty. I was scared. Not of the duty itself but of having a panic attack IN the duty waiting area in front of a bunch of strangers, or maybe while going through the metal detector. (Previous…

October 25, 2015

On faith and crisis

I haven’t been writing here too often because I’ve been trying to get some things figured out. Specifically, faith. Faith is a tough thing for me. My problem is not with God, my problem is with the distance I feel from God. Like, am…

September 29, 2015

A river of irony and broken rules

Yesterday in a twist of irony my landlord sent his handyman over to pressure wash the outside of the house. For three hours. In a drought. On the last day of the driest summer on record. There I was, trapped inside a building engulfed in more…

September 23, 2015