The Sophia Project

My hair is always a mess. Arriving at church or my grandparent’s house or school, my mom would pull a small brush from her handbag and aim it towards me. “Do you want to brush your hair?” she’d ask. More command than question. Sometimes I miss subtleties. “Nope,” I’d reply, swinging my long, gangly, knock-kneed [...]

I have given up on the American Dream. OK, perhaps that’s a bit dramatic. I think the American Dream is in need of a serious overhaul. A rewrite. Significant editing. Remodeling. What have you. I also think one of the rarely discussed facts of daily, American life is that most of us walk around feeling [...]

I’m one of those people.  You know the type. I’ve read about myself in advice columns, relationship blogs, and self-help books, always with an eye toward the other, unwilling to admit my occasional membership to this much-maligned and misunderstood club: Commitment phobes.  For me, it’s not relationships that are the problem (A., I love you, [...]

On a walk today I saw the long-gone body of a young bird, more feathers than form. Bone and beak. In a few days a strong wind will blow and poof, it will be gone. Gone. Gone. Where had the bird gone? The singing, fluttering, flying, magical beastie that wakes me up each morning and [...]

Recently the newspaper featured one of those horrible puppy-abuse stories that always causes me to cry into my coffee. A puppy was rescued from a pond where it was left to drown. He had a fractured pelvis and a broken leg, and healed fracture wound on his skull. This little guy had been seriously abused. [...]

“Rubberneckers” my friend says, rolling his eyes heavenward. We drive slowly past the three car accident on the highway. Concrete strewn with auto hardware, bits of plastic and twisted metal. An ambulance with lights flashing. Cops standing around, talking urgently into cell phones. The humans removed, the accident remains. I turn my head, too, leaning [...]

Some days, it’s just so easy to go off the rails.  As a writer, my world consists of two distinct dimensions: first, the heart-felt, soul-based, dig-deep-into-the-dirt storytelling that lights me up and gives my life purpose. Second, the pragmatic, techie details of the InterWebs that are fun, interesting, and pretty necessary but aren’t the true [...]