Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Still clinging to an ambition of doing something along the lines[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8   Throughout these years my theological education had taken a resolute turn toward[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7   Returning once more to L.A. County, I rented a small guest house from my[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6   What an uncanny and ironic turn of Providence it was that my hour of desperation coincided[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5   Having regained a semblance of family life, and at age fourteen having come finally into a level of physical[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4   But these revelations were yet future in my eighth grade year. Where I have little recollection of curriculum prior, of the eighth[…]

  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3   In the days that followed the older White participants would be picked up by police, but none of the Mexican rioters were[…]

  Part 1 Part 2   From my first day of junior high, trouble was imminent. Though frivolity and humor abounded, it never rose above vulgarity. A general hostility pervaded all[…]

  Part 1   Another such crisis of conscience came before long when the churchmen prescribed memory verses to the Sunday school class. The facilitators told us that it was[…]

I was born in 1976, a bicentennial baby and first son to the first son of a first son. Ford was in office then. The umbilical cord had been wrapped[…]