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Names On A Wall
 

Rin Steketee

Happy First Day of the New Year. I woke late this morning because my evening was slightly longer than I anticipated.  Let me tell you about last night.

 

Monday night football is on, you watch the game in it’s entirety. As you watch, you interpret, analyze, and deduce authentic original thoughts from the game you have just witnessed. (Assuming you do not just listen to the commentators from...

The recent podcast, Snap Judgment #202: Abducted,  prompted me to write this essay about my experience of being adopted.
Adoption is perfectly legal, so why-or how-could it be compared to the experience of being abducted?
Now,...

One of the turning-point events in my life occurred when I started college.  I was very excited to start a new chapter in my life.  I was looking forward to meeting new people, my classes, and the freedom that comes with it. ...

My name is Sean Christopher Lewis my story "ISN'T IT SLO-MANTIC" was part of last we

When One Door Closes, another Opens

 

 

Some may say that 2 years old is too young for a first memory. That there is no way a child that young could accurately retain an event and many years later correctly recall it, but I would beg to differ. I can recall this day...

 
It was 1969 inOttawa, Canada. Both my parents were Jewish, but they
 
raised us Catholic. Yeah, but they weren’t very convincing -
 

Ancient Roman theologian Saint Augustine once said, “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Ever since I can remember, I found the greatest joys in waiting at airport terminals, watching exit signs pass by...

 

         Have you ever had the feeling that when something terrible happened in your life, that there was something that someone could have done to change it?...