Wit has truth in it.

His name is Jerome and he is stereotypically effeminate, flicking his wrists with each shirt-folding and wagging his finger at his fellow cashiers’ off-handed jibes: “Huh-uhhhh, no you didn’t.” When you put your purchase on the counter—a simple white button-up, on sale (thank God) and therefore reasonably priced—he performs a neat little trick, sliding the […]

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Tonight in my Worldview Perspectives of City Life course, taught by the Philadelphia Campus’ indomitable director Dr. Timothy Peterson, we discussed the way in which our nation’s current state of isolationism—our geographically separated cities and suburbs and rural areas—and the pervasive fact that we, as individuals, have very little idea of exactly who we are, […]

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In Grantham it is fall already, and the air is crisp with the kind of breeze that rustles the little hairs on your arms. Walking around main campus today, taking advantage of my temporary sojourn from the concrete and steel of Philadelphia, I realize that I am terrifically underpacked: short-sleeve polos and footwear that doesn’t […]

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I probably shouldn’t admit this here, since Messiah College is paying me to blog, but sometimes I second-guess my academic training as a writer. Not that I think Messiah College has a bad program—on the contrary, I don’t think I’d have as many published pieces of writing as I do if not for the knowledge, […]

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Fear not, dear readers—I’m back. I have to apologize for being gone so long. Two weeks ago, I moved from my comfortable spot in the tiny hamlet of Grantham to the bustling metropolis of Philadelphia, where—for the next three or so months—I’ll be attending Messiah College’s Philaelphia campus (MCPC) and taking courses at Temple University, […]

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