Perspectives

As is usually the case the clock lost all momentum and had started ticking the minutes away at a glacial pace. I have only so many nerves in this body. And by the end of the idle Tuesday shift customers who had been taking their stupid pills were getting on my last nerve. The last half hour of portioning and peddling servings of yogurt is always the most … [Read more...] about Clippers credit cards and karma

This last weekend I gathered some swimmers together to volunteer for Coastal Cleanup Day at Surfrider Beach here in beautiful Malibu. I drive past Surfrider every day and usually it is picturesque and lovely with the whitewashed pier in the background and dozens of black dots which are surfers waiting in the water for the next perfect wave. So when someone told me that beach … [Read more...] about Letter to the Editor 10/1

I arrived at Pepperdine less than five weeks ago. Since classes commenced I have had four published articles in The Graphic have copy-edited an entire monthly newspaper's articles for an internship and have kept up with my reading (Great Books). Oh yeah and I have provoked a Pulitzer Prize winner to the level of fist-clenching anger. Pepperdine sure does throw its students … [Read more...] about Columnist judges before he listens

Coming from Denver I'm a bit biased in regards to the great outdoors. I admit it: We're a little snobbish about our state's natural beauty. Here in Malibu those things called the Santa Monica Mountains are not mountains but pointy hills. There are no fourteeners a half-hour drive away (if you don't know what that is look it up and climb one) and it grieved me greatly that I … [Read more...] about Appreciate the beauty in everything around us

If you take a good hard look at the world in which we live Psalm 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands begins to truly come to life. From the complexity in which our universe exists (for you philosophy nuts out there talk to Dr. Caleb Clanton about the "Scientific Argument for the Existence of God") to the black hole core of the … [Read more...] about Mirror mirror on the wall