The Storm Cloud Over This City

The Sports World and Mother Nature are in kuh-hoots to screw my beloved city of Philadephia.  I don’t understand what this city ever did to deserve it.  Philadelphia fans don’t lack for love-for-their-team or even a forgetful-love that loves year-after-year despite disappointment-after-disappointment.  What’s absolutely bewildering is the fact that Philadelphia teams aren’t actually bad, in [...]

Loom-X

The Phillies’ are in the World Series.  They’ve been different from teams in recent Philadelphia history in that they actually havn’t gone to Game 7’s to have to duke it out (where they would almost certainly lose because they’re a Philly team).  That’s been pretty exciting.  They won Game 1 of the World Series… and [...]

Lots of Words.

2008 will go down as a milestone year in my life.  Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  The sub-prime mortgage crisis leading to the meltdown of the American economy.  Meeting her.  Coming to understand and deal with my insecurities.  Second year of law school.  Life is difficult.  Life is exciting.  Life is day-to-day.  Life is year-by-year.
I’ve had [...]

Smoke, Humidity, Sweat, and Teenagers

I’m writing this post as I try to divert my attention from studying for just a little bit — in hopes that this brief break will allow me to blaze through the rest of the work I have to do before my night class and the Eagles’ game tonight.  On that note, I have to [...]

One-attuh-Time

I’ve been spending my summer working at Community Legal Services.  Since starting law school, I’ve been on a quest to determine what sort of practice embodies who I am and what I believe I’ve been called to do.  While at CLS, I’ve had first-hand experience working with clients who subsist on $200/month and/or some other [...]

Baseball

As I’m writing this the Phils just lost a second game in a row to the Marlins.  Things had been incredibly exciting for the past couple weeks — things are hardly bad yet, but after winning so much and scoring so much recently — checking ESPN.com and finding out that they didn’t win is slightly [...]

Blurs

Things have been a blur.  Blurs can be negative in the sense that, it’s just too much going by at once and there’s not enough time or energy to focus.  But when all that is passing by is positive – positive not necessarily in the sense that life is dandy — but positive in the sense [...]

The Children are Dying

An original piece from thoughts after hearing about and seeing images from the recent earthquakes in China.
THE CHILDREN ARE DYING
The children are dying.
The children are getting hit by stray bullets.
The children are dying.
The children are getting crushed inside their schools by the roof caving and the ground shifting.
The fathers are digging through cement blocks to [...]

Excuses For Good Food

Mother’s Days tend to be great excuses to eat well.

 

The Truth on TV

In recent weeks, the FLDS church has been plastered all over the news.  Since the 400+ children were evacuated, there has been constant footage and interviews of FLDS families and members.  While I personally feel frustrated and have my own reservations against their practices, I also can’t help but feel that the FLDS is being exploited [...]