Tag: children

The Price of Vengeance is the Blood of Innocents

Reflections on the Eve of Bin Laden’s Death. I woke up this morning and read that Bin Laden was dead.   It made me remember September 11th.   The funny thing about September 11th is that all of us have a story.   All of us Americans.   


May 3, 2011 10

Defying Tomorrow

  People will break your heart, But what can you do about it? Take my heart and turn it into a friggin’ omelette Break my heart over and over, I don’t care. The chicken can always lay another egg.


February 3, 2011 3

Some Thoughts On Teenage Pregnancy

A residential services charity gives teenage moms and pregnant teenagers a place to live.   “We give the girls a place to live where no one will judge them,” the woman began her spiel to me and my Americorps friends. But then she went on, “Sometimes the girls come back to us two, three times, each…
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October 19, 2010 10