Potluck (no Jello!)

How much does your god love you? Would your god put on flesh simply to be with you? Would your god eat with you and your friends—even on days when you had taken more than was yours, and prostituted yourselves out of necessity or just for pleasure? Would your god pray with you and ask Read more

I lie on my back on the bare floor and begin my surrender, slowly, deliberately. I roll my head from side to side, imagining water sloshing from side to side. Slowly slosh left; slowly slosh right. Repeat. I ask my eyes to sink toward the back of my head. I imagine the four eye muscles Read more

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In defense of Jeff B – Jeff Bezos, not brother-in-law, Jeff B, who is a prince and needs no defense. Working at Amazon.com changed the way I think about work, creativity, process, and language.  Which is a lot.   Some vignettes. What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? That’s the question former Amazonians ask each other when Read more

St. Cecelia’s anchors the corner of SW Franklin and 5th in Beaverton, OR. just two blocks from my apartment. It’s a busy place. Between five Sunday masses, a school, a food pantry, a parish hall, a separate office building, and an athletic field, the parking lot is often full, and people seem to be around, Read more

Bras and I did not get off to a good start. The August before eighth grade, my mom and I went bra shopping for the first time. I was fashionably late to the development party, and I saw the expedition as the potential end of my football-playing days. My mom probably saw it as a Read more