Month: September, 2007
Sat 29 Sep 2007
I was raised to be rational, encouraged to dissect and debunk the mysterious.
Wait. Let me re-phrase that.
I was raised to think of myself as rational, encouraged to dissect and debunk the mysterious beliefs held by other people.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have this self-image which positions them as the lone scholars in a benighted world enslaved by con [...]
Mon 17 Sep 2007
1: Co-Worker, Early Thursday Morning
“Over in Longmeadow, some buddies and me useta have a poker game. We played on the last Friday of every month, at the house of the former Chief of Police, no less! One of our co-workers was a Black guy, and the first time we invited him, we had to give [...]
Wed 5 Sep 2007
I’m having a lot of nightmares recently, but not nightmares about falling from a great height or showing up at the office without my pants on. Actually, they’re less like traditional nightmares and more like scenes from florid Spanish-language soap operas: upsetting and awkward confrontations with old friends, deeply inappropriate interludes with former lovers, always [...]
