Single-Minded: An Independent Journal of Fact and Opinion

Back just before the turn of the century I started something that today would be called a blog. I named it SingleMinded: An Independent Journal of Fact and Opinion. Most of the stuff had a pretty short shelf life, but the ones I have listed here seemed to hold up pretty well over time. Well, I guess you'll be the judge of that. Anyway, for what it's worth, these are my favorites. Enjoy.

a vietnam state of mind (09/02)
Our lives would never be the same, just as our country would never be the same.

curling (02/02)
Curling is a throwback to an unplugged era, a reminder that in some parts of the world winter is a long cold affair and there is plenty of time on your hands.

and in the end . . . (12/01)
For those of us who remember when it all began, Harrison's death is another brick in the wall that separates us from our younger days.

twenty years, where'd they go? (08/01)
I am caught up a second adolescence, one last passage, this time from adulthood to senescence.

crime and punishment (07/01)
I selfishly wish that Paul Wayment had found a way to ride it out, for we are all sinners in varying degrees, and we all have to soldier on under the weight of our mistakes.

the god within (06/01)
Do we believe in God because the brain makes us feel that way or did God make our brains in such a way as to provide a means by which a sense of the divine can be reinforced through these spiritual experiences?

our hearts of darkness (06/01)
What we did during the war, even if we never even went to the war, is something that my generation of men carries on our back, a weight that sometimes leads us to stumble and fall.

comfortably numinous (05/01)
I have become comfortably numinous in my agnosticism.

rodney mccallister (03/01)
No one was there to witness the final moments in the death of Rodney McAllister.

the second cloning of christ (11/00)
As we stand poised on the brink of the New Millenium, religion is again trying to press science into service, this time to fulfill certain prophesies in the Bible about the end of the world.

do you belive in miracles? (09/00)
Trying to quit religion is like trying to quit smoking.

my private vietnam (04/00)
Twenty five years later, America still has yet to truly understand just what the hell happened in Vietnam.

morel's fervor (01/00)
The modern anti-slavery movement really began as the result of the efforts of one man to end what he came to see was the true heart of darkness in Africa.

unfinished business (08/99)
The Civil War continues to rattle around in the American psyche.

buford furrow's day offing (08/99)
If the baby Jesus needs you out there doing his work, and if that means killing somebody, well, that's that.

super-size me! (06/99)
When was it decreed that all portions must be of a gargantuan size?

the lamb cake(04/99)
Anything worth eating is made from carbohydrates.

the goldfinch (01/99)
Birds occupy a prominent place in Italian superstitions concerning death.

the church of the wysiwyg (10/98)
The part of my brain that was supposed to respond to the religious impulse did not seem to be functioning too well.

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