Smoke Detectors & Refrigerators

As a child, growing up in Ohio, I thought a potato chip was a potato chip. When you only ever eat one brand, you have no reason to think any differently. Then, I grew up, went out into the world and ate potato chips of all makes and models. One day, I came to the…

Nearly twenty years old, everybody dressed in late 80’s fashions, an overly dramatic happy ending, and Lean on Me still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. When Mr. Clark gives Sams the crack speech, when he tells Kid Ray he’ll be dead in a year, when the boys in the bathroom (which would…

Every rainbow has its pot of gold. It lies at rainbow’s end, that mystical place to which science tells us it is impossible to actually get. Metaphorically, this may be true as well, but we’ll get to that. Unless our early lives have been so tragic that we lose the ability, we all start out…