How do you avoid thinking of yourself "more highly than you ought" without shooting your self-esteem in the foot with a relatively large caliber hand-cannon? This is an issue I struggled with for quite a while, and this article marks my attempt at dealing with it.
Great treatises on love should be written by (if you pardon my Stongbad influences here) not-young-people. But I wrote one anyway. I'll promote its better qualities. It's short. It's funny. At times it's downright cute. The end is strangely inspiring, and yes I know how to knit.
This article has one of the most random openings I've ever written. I love it. It is one little bit of prose I am most proud of.
I'm married now. But there was a time when I wasn't, and this article really captures the heart of what I was looking for at the time. I claim I'm looking for "a partner in life, for life", and, I'm happy to add, such have I found. This article was published in a newsletter my old church used to put out, and subsequently launched me into writing fame. An odd type of fame though--I had many ladies come up to me asking to be my matchmaker. I had taken my first steps towards bachelorhood.
This is a strange article. Few have read it. I'm not sure it makes as much sense as I'd like it too, and I'm not sure that I'll agree with it in the future as I continue to mature. It is what it is...intellectual fodder carefully disguised as intellectual fodder. Not senseless, but possibly rubbish. I'm still tickled by my use of the word "foggiest" though.
Dancing. Easy. Right. This little article started as a write-up for a dance class I took while in college. It was meant to be something simple that the teacher can at some point plow through a stack of them. But it wasn't. She called me later, that dance instructor of mine, and told me how much she really enjoyed it. That was encouraging.
A brief overview of how to catch a Frisbee utilizing Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I'm not really sure how or why this got written, but it did. And it started this whole new world of article writing for me. I've written many more after it, though they rarely seem to go back to the simple self-deprecation meets science formula that was laid out in this my original article.