Owner: Jack McDaniel URL:http://www.jackmcdaniel.net Join Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:48:16 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: a collection of personal essays and stories I began writing when my daughter was born. I wanted something to give to her when she was older about our lives and the things that were going on Site statistics:Click here
Female Math 2008-02-19 21:53:11 Some things are so indelibly etched into our framework of electrical impulses, DNA encoding, and sweat and dreams that we rarely question their rationality, let alone their existence. There are times, however, when a psychic knock on the head causes us to stop and look at things anew, Read more:Female
Not Like Us 2007-06-09 10:50:44 Jonathon Sachs, writing for the Times Online, recently wrote:
"The real battle, and it applies to secular and religious alike, is: can we love, not hate, the people not like us? "
Arrested for What?! 2007-04-30 13:17:23 Freedom of Speach is one of the constitutional guarantees that we all seem to understand and protect with a great deal of vigor. It's integrity is essential to a well-functioning democracy.
Agents of the Undertow 2007-04-23 21:32:24 Take this picture: a young child stands in the half-sunlight beneath a group of large pine trees, reaching out to touch the flowers and smell their spring-time fragrance. The child is smiling. The back of her printed dress hangs loosely Read more:Undertow
Building Walls 2007-04-23 15:25:25 Now, it seems, we can bring peace to Baghdad by building a wall, or a series of walls. These walls, no doubt, will partition off an elite few from the violence that is ever-present in the Iraqi capital. Read more:Building
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Sunshine Market Souvenirs 2007-04-08 21:15:09 The Sunshine Market
shows up in the backs of station wagons and temporary tents every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in a little park in the heart of Hanapepe, “The biggest little town on Kaua’i”.
Mankind - R.I.P. 2007-03-28 18:53:44 I want to be the man standing atop the hill when the next sentient being emerges from the fog of evolution. I want to show that being all of the reasons why the great human experiment failed.
Laugh. Go ahead.
Vacationing With the Dead 2007-03-28 00:19:58 Lindbergh, Da Vinci, Galileo, Martin Luther King, Jr. They thumbed their nose at convention. They spat into the wind and dared it to spit back. Each of them reached beyond the horizon and grabbed tomorrow. Read more:Vacationing
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 2007-03-27 17:54:36 “So dad,” comes the still-tiny voice from the back seat of the car, “when Santa finally gets too old and tired and decides to retire, who will take his place?”
Footsteps 2007-03-27 17:42:50 It is very early in the morning and I have stolen Madison from her bed and taken her to the beach for a sunrise walk. The beach, like most of Hawaii, is sleeping, only a few egrets are keeping watch over us. The sun is emerging from its morning bath and the ocean is beginning its retreat from the heat until later toward evening. Read more:Footsteps
Hitting Bottom 2007-03-27 17:37:57 Madison sat in a sandbox. The sandbox doubled as a volleyball court that went mostly unused. She pushed a plastic shovel into the soft, dried sand, scooped some up and placed it in a pile within easy reach. She was dreaming, playing out fantasies and creating worlds. At her age--she was 4 years old then--there was nothing more she could do. Read more:Hitting
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What She Should Have Said 2007-03-27 16:02:55 Religious Fundamentalists are amazing in their ability to believe things that are completely contradictory to the teachings of Jesus Christ. In truth, more amazing is their inability to even see that their beliefs are contradictory.
Playing In the Shadows 2007-03-27 14:20:22 Winter has come to Evergreen, Colorado. The temperatures no longer threaten the seventy degree mark. Even in the midday sun’s warmth there is a hint of deep cold, the suggestion that this is only the beginning of a long freeze. This year the snows are arriving late. It is mid-December and yesterday, for the first time, we had continual snow. Read more:Shadows
Quiet Places 2007-03-27 14:18:08 Good fortune smiles on the appreciative traveler in the Rocky Mountains and southwestern states. Beautiful vistas and brilliant sunshine fill postcard-like days most of the year. There are places where nature's orchestra is playing all out, across all senses, and, too, there are quiet places where she is playing a simple yet effective string guitar. Read more:Quiet
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The Value of Things 2007-03-27 14:16:37 A short time ago, I received in the mail an inventory booklet from my home insurance agent. It was, of course, blank and asking to be filled in, something I’d avoided too long. Start small, I thought. It will be easier. Take measure of the little things first, the seemingly insignificant, the ordinary. Read more:Value
The Rhinoceros Is Eating S'ghetti 2007-03-26 14:56:22 This is how it begins. We are driving to San Diego from Colorado. The trip has taken two and a half days, leisurely and fun. Surprisingly, our twenty-month-old daughter has spent most of her back seat time singing ("Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Ring Around the Rosy"),
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