Monthly Archives: December 2015

The Gifts of 2015

Five kids. Five pieces of paper. Five pencils, at various shades of dull. End of the year, every year. Daddy always had us sit down and consider our last year. We were supposed to glance over the previous year’s goals and see if we actually accomplished any of them, but, more importantly, he wanted us […]

A Note to Christians about the Syrian Refugees

It’s early-mid November. I check the news right before beginning to pack up from a month in Quebec, North America’s closest cousin to France. And freeze. Gunmen have been shooting in a crowded theater in Paris; suicide bombers blowing themselves up on streets. The numbers of the dead are still being confirmed. We are all […]