Encomium
Sean MurphyAugust 30, 2002 I said: Everything that is good about me is because of my mother. I was in a church for the first time in forever. The church where…
The Once and Future King: ‘SMiLE’ and Brian Wilson’s Very American Dream
What if I were to tell you the 21st Century has already produced its great American novel? And what if I told you it was actually written almost five decades…
*Pig Parts Sold Separately.
I don't know about you, but after a tough day at the office, few things unwind me faster than busting out my broadsword and going to work on some animal…
Sanctuary*
I visited my mother’s grave the first several years for the same reason I used to attend church: it was expected, it was meant to make me feel better, it…
Reversal*
You become a parent, in reverse. The idea is that, in theory, as your parents age you assume some degree of responsibility for them and, to some degree, you take…
Every Time I Scribble A Thought With Artistic Intent*
I’m fortunate, in a sense, to be the type of person that gets more sentimental about the times I read a certain book or heard a particular album than I…
Art and Life
(2003) Every so often I can’t help hoping that there will be a knock on my door and when I open it, who is there but my sexy soul mate,…
The End*
I didn’t need a doctor to tell me that it was over. On the way to no longer being, a person suffering from a terminal disease, like cancer, ceases to…
Fairy Tales and Feeding Tubes*
The brief experiment with the feeding tube was sufficiently impractical and unsavory that it seemed a small, if conflicted victory when we agreed to discard the apparatus. “So just call…
Finding Grace in Beautiful Places
In a piece I recommend you reading @ the reliably awesome Rumpus, writer Amber Sparks, a non-believer, discusses matters of faith, spirituality and art (check it here). The piece is entitled "Seeking…