Friends in Strange Places

Ad Aspera Astrada By Striving We Can Reach the Stars Cyberspace is filled with teenage angst. Searching for InDivIdual-ity and connection simultaneously isn’t like searching for a needle in a haystack; it’s like searching for a particular needle in a stack of needles. I am dismayed, though, at the seeming darkness and despair of teens [...]

Of Mice and Men: The Death of the American Dream

Steinbeck was a Depression novelist, and he saw it as his duty to “set down his time as nearly as he can understand it.”   He does so in Of Mice and Men  which portrays the corruption of the American dream during the 1930′s. I have always thought Steinbeck tried to portray the American Dream simply [...]

God Is…

 [Written 10 years and 2 less kids ago] God is the bond of love that binds my wife and I together after ten years of marriage and brings us closer every day and still leaves the best for tomorrow. God is the purest intentions and the fulfilled potentiality of my mother and father. God is [...]