Mixed Moss

There’s something about Latin culture that intoxicates. It gets in your blood and creeps into your heart with a new beat and sends it’s rhythm hurtling to the tips of your fingers and toes– maybe even hurtling to the ends of the universe. It pulses in each cappillary, dances on each taste bud, and makes […]

There’s something about Latin culture that intoxicates. It gets in your blood and creeps into your heart with a new beat and sends it’s rhythm hurtling to the tips of your fingers and toes– maybe even hurtling to the ends of the universe. It pulses in each cappillary, dances on each taste bud, and makes […]

I feel like I should apologize. So there, I said it: I’m sorry. What right have I to ask strength and integrity of others when I am weak and a fake?
Another time, maybe we will all do better.

Poison.
Willful poison.
Murderer.
You’ve killed your own�
and you’re not alone.
You’ve killed your dignity–and worse,
you’ve let others kill mine
and not said a word cause you don’t have a spine.
Well, I do.
So now I say to you:
Stand up
stand strong
be a man.
(a real man,
‘cause they’ll lie to you about what a man is, if they can.)
I can’t change you;
I can’t […]

Whattaya gonna do?
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This week-end I am going on a short roadtrip. My destination: Alabama. What awaits me at the end: friends from around the country, most of whom I haven’t seen in two years. But what will happen along the way? Ahh, that is the mysterious, evocative question. Life will happen along the way. And it will […]

It’s important to celebrate your friends’ successes. My friend Matt is graduating in June. And as of yesterday, he also has a job. Best of luck, Matt.

Last June I went on a trip to Guatemala. While I worked in a nutrition clinic with malnurished children, most of the team I went with spent the time digging cisterns. Why? Because water is a top priority in most developing countries. I fell in love with the little girls I worked with in the […]

Today is World Water Day: http://www.worldwaterday2006.org/
The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water1. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day2. In fact, out […]

I don’t know why, but here in Over-the-Rhine it is the accepted mode to throw any bread you don’t want out of your windows. This is considered quite normal and even, by some, as kind to the birds. The half-way house resident whose apartment is directly above my office routinely tosses his out of the […]