15 Most Popular posts of 2015

From the most recent on back...

• lying about God to your kids (advocating radical epistemological honesty with children) 
• it's just one day, man (a rallying cry for those who, like me, fear "til death do us part")
• in which i un-ironically like something from the Christian subculture (Rich Mullins was the man)
• Walter Scott and the Big, White Lie (an expression of anger and grief over yet another racially-driven shooting)
• "girls get uglier as they get older" (in which I yell "NO!" at a seven-year-old for his articulation of the youth/beauty=value equation of our culture)
• the Comparison Cancer (on the destructive effects of forgetting to just be you)
• EVERYTHING IS BROKEN/EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (a meandering contemplation on art-making and the perceived need for accomplishment)
• today we are obliged to be romantic (an epic poem I constructed for my at-the-time fiancee from the first lines of thirty of the world's most popular romantic poems)
• Fake Sex Stories (on our cultural obsession with a false view of sex)
• Kill the K-Cup (in which I bemoan this reprehensible, environmentally wicked practice)
• FICTION FRIDAY: "Dotty" (in which I challenged readers to finish a story I'd started)
• AMERICAN SNIPER (a review)
• Disaster at the Chicken Express! (on the disconnect moderns feel between meat-eating and the animals they're eating)
• Prisencolinensinaincausol (on David Foster Wallace)
• Minecrafting a Giant (about my son's obsession w/ Minecraft)
• Story of a Josh (a brief Artist's autobiography)