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I wondered how I could keep going. I caught myself thinking about life and the situations and crises of faith I’m currently struggling with. I can’t make it another 30 years like this, I thought. I don’t have the faith, the strength, the hope, the spiritual stamina, the answers, the understanding, the self-control… I couldn’t …

There’s an unhappy story somewhere in these three ads that were in yesterday’s classified section of the local newspaper. That, and possibly the material for a country western song.

I am interested in the opinions of others. My definition of others is quite small. It includes close family and friends currently in my immediate life. Everything on the internet has been made social, which, for all the great rhetoric, means we find out when people who are on our digital friends lists are at …

Through social media, I can update a list of random friends and followers with my location, whether they or I care or not. On some sites, I am limited to 140-character briefings on life, love, and the pursuit of the current five seconds. I could forgo challenging forays into the lives of people with the …

I don’t ever want to be someone’s “artsy friend.” The sum total of who I am cannot be grasped easily, since much of the equation is hidden far below the surface and is not even understood by me. A recent conversation (which was flippant and forgettable in every way) reminded me of the mechanism which …