A Pool Game Mixes Ritual With Geometry.

Having A Great Dad Probably Permitted Me To Pal Around With Guys In A Way That Some Women Don't.

In My Godless Household, Poems Were The Closest We Came To Sacred Speech -- The Only Prayers Said.

When People Suffer, Their Relationships Usually Suffer As Well. Period. And We All Suffer Because, As The Buddha Says, That's The Nature Of Being Human And Wanting Stuff We Don't Always Get.

It Strikes Me That Whatever Advantages There Are To Being A Boy--getting To Stay Out Late And Having Other People Wash Your Clothes And Bring You Plates Of Stuff--get Undercut By Having To Play Football.

As A Memoirist, I Strive For Veracity.