There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.