The Barbershop

We can gain something from the Ike Carters and the student DJs of our communities: a human connection, a community connection—not to mention great music.

My addiction, rather, is of a more respectable variety.

College football is a local endeavor that should be enacted by those with a connection to that place.

Holding the letters was a delicate experience, noting the brittle nature of the paper, being careful not to let them tear at the aged folds, and yet the blue ink, obviously done…

I mourn the storm. It’s far from over. But I also do not mourn without hope.

Automobiles shield you from the outside world, its sounds, its colors. But on my bike, I encounter my environment directly.

In other words, knowledge and reason are no match for our gargantuan vices. The giants passion and pride cannot be held at bay by the ignorance that prevails in public discourse and…

But our culture’s celebration of Halloween suggests that we know yet more. We sense not only that we are dust and will return to it; we also sense that life exists beyond…

Zoning laws, housing codes, and a culture marked by suspicion and antisociality make it difficult to revive the boarding house, a living arrangement that once applied to nearly half of the population.

Maybe, in the end, a home library does what a long-inhabited home does: charts a middle ground between the chaos of the world and the hyper-rationality of modernity.

When we toast we celebrate our fight against the forces of darkness and evil.

To find these deeper wells of silence, however, we must seek them out, whether in the woods or the deserts of our own shut doors.