Author Archives: Life Along the Edge

“Blood in the house, blood in the street The worst things in the world are justified by belief.” U2 A 13 year old boy blows his ass up in a street full of wedding partiers in Turkey and 50 people … Continue reading →

I heard something profound in church today; a rarity. It’s not that profound things don’t get said or happen in church. It’s just that more often the profundity is right up there with a Donald Trump tweet. Ok? Here’s the … Continue reading →

This article is damning, but spot on. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/evangelical-christians-trump-bill-clinton-apology/495224/

This was my dad’s happy place. A pond behind his house. He’d promised his Connie a house on the water and they lived here for more than a decade. She still does and here I sit. From the back deck … Continue reading →

April 29, 1980 was clear and chilly. A high school friend, Scott, and I were on the Metro Red Line to attend “Washington for Jesus”. W4J was a gathering of the newly empowered “religious right” movement that aimed to “take … Continue reading →

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/19/rio-olympics-providing-a-record-number-of-condoms-to-athletes/ Times have changed. Used to be, back when I was a high school athlete, coaches told their charges to “keep it in your pants tonight! We have a game tomorrow!” He wouldn’t want you to over exert yourself and … Continue reading →

The urge to roam and explore is only tempered by the need to belong. Maybe that’s what makes Americans different. And Australians. We are all from somewhere else. Even so called Native Americans came from someplace, although from where exactly … Continue reading →

  In 2011 Phoenix police raided a “house of worship”, the Phoenix Goddess Temple: (Bingo every Wednesday, two-for-one lap dances every Thursday from 4-6). Tracy Elise, the leader of the group, was sentenced in May 2016 to 4.5 years in … Continue reading →

As a sometime – if mostly unsuccessful – fisherman, I have spent hours in my boat casting and reeling in lures of all shapes and sizes. I have caught more branches and weeds than fish and have probably caused enough … Continue reading →

LGBT gun rights group sees membership skyrocket after Orlando shooting  http://usat.ly/28MeQUO http://www.pinkpistols.org/ Think the LGBT community is monolithic?   We often make assumptions about how minority groups are “supposed” to behave. Remember 2008 when pundits, mostly white, wondered whether Barack Obama; … Continue reading →