When the road looks dark

In college my roommate and I used to get into her boxy black Jeep and drive. Just drive. We didn’t have a destination, we simply picked a road that looked interesting and drove until we felt it was time to turn around… which was usually when we started craving Jersey Mikes. We spent many moments […]

A skip in my sounds

Cars come, cars go. The constant flow slows and finally stops as the day turns into night, the night into the still morning. The silence that finally descends in those wee hours is only broken by an occasional truck heading to the docks, the loud clanging of containers being loaded onto a cargo ship, a […]

And so it goes

A pile of store-bought fried dough claiming to be doughnuts sat on the counter; they lied. A pitcher of sugary red Tang and several bottles of neon orange Fanta brightened the inside of the fridge with their cheery unnaturalness. Tea, sugar, milk, and a fresh pot of coffee perched expectantly in their various dedicated spots […]

The bike that followed me home

The headlights of our truck cut through the morning dark, occasionally giving me a glimpse of families trekking along the side of the road heading to the football field. All of them were clad in the garishly yellow, yet highly coveted Trukai Fun Run shirts. I was on my way to collect two friends and […]

God is my sister

Don’t correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m fairly certain I have God’s relationship to man completely worked out. After lovingly knitting us together in the womb, counting the hairs on our head at any and every point of our existence, having his heart broken at our choice to live apart from him in sin, […]