She was thought to be four years old when they found her hiding among boxes on a New Orleans side street. It was just a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Frightened at first, she eventually went along with two rescue workers who offered some soothing words and a little bit to eat. She did not [...]
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Stella
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It hurts like brand-new shoes
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We all have memorable experiences. A first kiss. A game-winning score. Some of our best experiences are poignant, while others are simply outlandish. (I remember leaning over the side of a fishing boat and seeing the basketball-size eye of a whale rise up for glimpse of me before rolling back under a dark wave.)
While [...]
Life After Seventeen …
Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One Spring afternoon while seated in the last row of Sister Marie’s history class, I began to make a list. It was a list of things I wanted to do before I died. It might seem unusual for a 17-year-old schoolboy to feel the pressure of his mortality, but those were dangerous times. War. Assassinations. [...]
