Purpose

I was sitting on my back porch with my neighbor, Ben. We try and get together whenever we have some down time (which is very rare). He works for the post office and has a wife, two children and [...]

“The thought of suicide was entertained by nearly everyone.” As a new prisoner in Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl was often made to carry full latrine buckets across the camp to dispose of them. The [...]

He was likely twice my age. He moved so slowly, his steps looked painful and sluggish against the sidewalk. He stopped just under the overpass and lay his dirty backpack against the cold stones [...]

His grin widened, and I could see the fire in his eyes. “Let’s go,” he said. We hopped into his car and zipped to the ATM. He threw the money at me and said, “I’m in. Let’s make this happen.” Our [...]

I found myself in a scene straight out of the cliché teenager flick Mean Girls. In the movie, it was a Halloween house party: all the girls were dressed minimally in what were supposed to be [...]

[pullquote]Often, people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to earn money to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like. -Nigel Marsh[/pullquote]   There’s [...]

“You failed your communications course. You’re not going to be able to graduate college this semester.” I read and re-read and re-read that email. My cheeks flushed in embarrassment. It felt like [...]

The gym is a fascinating place during the month of January each year. Recently I enjoyed watching a young man use one of the machines in the gym like he was trying to start a lawnmower and jerk [...]

August Burns Red wasn’t my first experience with a band; I had actually started bands when I was around fifteen years old. My first concert was a Strike Anywhere show in a hole-in-the-wall [...]

“Play us the song! Play us the song!” The crowd roared in a unified chant requesting for the drum instructor to play a run-through of their hit track. Well, they were actually chanting for him to [...]