Remember how this final season would reveal all the questions we had built up over 5 seasons, 103 episodes? Yeah, not so much; unless you consider parallel universes, a whole new tribe of "others" on the island and a body count like a bad revenge movie answers. LOST is back, and its still confusing as hell.
The Shunning
During a summer Sunday afternoon in 1996, after a traditional (and excruciatingly long) church service, the men had gathered at the picnic tables to wait for lunch to be served. Children ran and played in the yard. Woman chatted and laughed as they prepared sandwiches with ham and Muenster cheese ...
Misguided notions of personal responsibility, natural law and God's will
It's human nature to question God in the face of tragedy. Whether natural or man made, whether personal or global, our instincts tell us someone has to be responsible. On the global scale, a catastrophe (like that of the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami of 2005) is ...
What the heart might want, doesn't make it right
I don't have an answer for what the heart needs. I only know that the heart (and to be perfectly clear, one using their "heart" is merely another way of saying one's emotions and feelings) is an easily misguided and confused beacon of guidance. Yet we are all guided by ...
Help, I'm stuck and I don't want to get out
If I had to be stuck in any year in musical history I would without a doubt happily settle in 1993. A year that not only saw an astounding number of excellent records produced, but a time that helped shaped who I am. So here's a list of some of ...
Merry Christmas (I think)
I'm trying. I really am. I'm telling myself that it's worth it. The tradition. The pretending (in spite of the knowledge of things you wish you hadn't found out about and now it just looms in the future like a giant cloud that will rain suck throughout the coming year, ...
I'm still not made of bacon and other things that may or may not have happened the past 10 years
It has been a decade of firsts for me (and probably many of you). The first decade to be married. The first decade to be a father. The first decade to be a home owner. The first decade to be a full-time laborer. The first decade to not be in ...