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Perfectly Unbelievable

February 24, 2014

I am wounded by insincerity, and by honesty delivered too late. This goes for my own behavior, as well as that of others, although if I’m the one guilty of guile, I seem to get over it much faster. When I was a junior in high school, I developed what I thought was a close […]

Choosing to Grow Up

May 27, 2010

(This essay was first published in my local newspaper, way back in 2003.) Summer is approaching fast, high school graduation time, and another wave of fresh faces is about to slam into the beach. I call it the Great Rude Awakening. Maybe they’re off to college, where they’ll find that their professors will flunk them […]