A while ago I got my hands on a very old copy of Moby Dick. Published in 1930, it contained breath-taking charcoal sketches. Quite unexpectedly, I grew more deeply in love with God with each turn of the page. You may ask, why? How? Isn’t it just a great work of literature about an obsessed…
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First Kiss
My first kiss was with Brenda, at Regina Vaccaro’s seventh grade party. Little did I know, my brother JoJo watched us, steaming mad. Even then he was in love with her. He and Brenda were married right out of high school. Four days after that kiss I was a bachelor again. Not only because of…
The Value of Obsession
I love the novel, Moby Dick. The fateful journey of captain Ahab and crew brings a kind of telescopic context to life. For Ahab, a near fatal first pass at the whale had him tasting brine mixed with his own blood. That defeat crept into his soul, and retribution became an obsession. The novel wends…
To Sir, with love 