My Favorite Debt
Mar 9, 2009 hitchhiking, reading
I picked up a hitchhiker this morning and he identified me immediately: “You’re a Cedarville student, aren’t you?” Is it that obvious? Do I just radiate repressed fundamentalist vibes? But Samir assured me it was just a guess based on probabilities: C.S.U. students speed by, C.U. students pick him up. He’s living at Wilberforce but [...]
Tags: Cedarville, Central State, hitchhiking, Holocaust, luck, poker, randomness, Wilberforce, Xenia
The Reader in the Striped Pajamas
Feb 17, 2009 movies
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated every January 27th. The day often re-ignites discussions over what should be done with the old Nazi death camps: should Auschwitz and Dachau be left to rot, reclaimed by nature, or actively maintained as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust? Survivors, whose opinions here should trump all, have [...]
Tags: Germany, Hollywood, Holocaust, Nazism, The Reader