Category Archives: Miscellany
What’s In An Age?
I know people who feel old because they passed a certain age. For some it was thirty, for many forty. For a sickening number of others, the age “getting old” thing started in their late twenties. Seriously. They finished college and suddenly a certain depression about “not being young anymore” or “being able to do …
Memorial Day
To paraphrase Martin Luther King, if someone hasn’t discovered something he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live. I’ve always found that ever so slightly harsh, coming from the good Reverend, but I certainly see his point. Being willing to die for something, or even for someone without a doubt represents that ultimate …
Scintilla13 Day 14
We exert control over ourselves and others in many ways. Talk about a time when you lost that control. This can go beyond the obvious emotional control into things like willpower, tidiness, self-discipline, physical prowess – any time that you felt your autonomy slipping away. I really can’t say my very autonomy has slipped away …
Scintilla13 Day 11
Write about an experience you had that was so strange or incredible, it sounds like it could have been made up. When I was in my senior year of high school, my mother was driving us home one evening from somewhere. We traveled down US 15 in Maryland (something we don’t often do) and when we came …
Scintilla13 Day 9
What is the longest thing you know by heart (for example, a prayer, speech, commercial jingle, etc.)? Why did you learn it? I don’t think I could recite it now, though I haven’t tried. But for a while, I had committed to memory the first 15 minutes of the one-man script, “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” 15 minutes may …
