Incertus

“There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene.

In The Beginning

[This article originally appeared in Kidscope, the OC Foundation newsletter for children, in January of 2001]

In the beginning…

Summer was here, that glorious time when school was a distant memory and endless days of sun and sand lay ahead: September and the return to books and rules, a vague discomfort somewhere over the horizon. At 10 years old … Read The Rest >>

“I also saw the awful agonies that Tantalus has to bear. The old man was standing in a pool of water which nearly reached his chin, and his thirst drove him to unceasing efforts; but he could never get a drop to drink. For whenever he stooped in his eagerness to lap the water, it disappeared. The pool was swallowed up, and all he saw at his feet was the dark earth, which some mysterious … Read The Rest >>