Take this pill. It makes what you do matter. It guarantees results. No side effects. No drug rep hiding behind me ready to stab you with his free pen and inflamed copays. Michael Moore isn't here;   

I thought the only things the chronically homeless addict and the teenaged women had in common were literary readings on the same weekend and the relative precariousness of their lives. That's befo  

I take a break from writing a string of sincere columns about people on the margins and issues involving socioeconomic disparity to get lost in my new PlayStation 2 for a month. I once logged abou  

The peril of living in a river city is you could end up dying on a bridge. The peril of living is you could end up living under a bridge. Then you might end up dying under a bridge. While we mourn  

­ I've drawn water out of a toilet. Water puddles. Spit. She pushes long hair over her shoulder, and her tattoos glow in the night spotlight of a coffeeshop patio. ­ If I was sitting in   

The way Shane Claiborne reads his Bible, a lot of Jesus Christ's acts cleverly lampooned and satirized the existing order in order to undermine and expose it. Hence Jesus telling collectors to get  

My attempts to tell the truth about myself used to feel like describing foliage by studying a topographical map: I could guess what people expected to grow where, but I really couldn't tell what I   

I haven't done my income taxes yet. Probably I'll get money back; if I owe, I guess I'll figure something out on the 16th. Same with buying gas. I don't exert myself to scout out the cheapest in t  

The morning after finds me creeping down the entryway. For the first time since I moved to Over-the-Rhine, I'm scared to see the street beyond my apartment building. The security gate's curling de