I was only three years old, so I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing the day Kennedy was assassinated, but I damn sure remember that I was in Asheville drinking a glass of apple-carrot-beet juice when I first encountered the dress. A text had arrived from a friend asking simply, “What […]
Nine days and counting, but to what? All that hoo-hah about the Mayan calendar running out of days on December 21, 2012 and now the same people who one year ago were telling us to put our heads between our legs and kiss our asses goodbye are inviting us to post-apocalypse parties. Something is going […]
One of my favorite StoryPeople cartoons is of a man in a little green boat feeding a fish. The caption reads: “How can you be sure it has a soul? she said. You can’t, I said, unless you’ve got one yourself.” The atheistic conviction that we’re already dead is as impossible for me to take seriously as […]
