Browsing: you might say

       I started wandering through my childhood and adolescence, trying to figure out how I wound up creating the guy now sitting in front of his computer screen, and I quickly started digging through some of the old journal notebooks I have saved, dating back to tenth grade. In my English class that year, one of the books we were assigned to read was The Diary of Anne Frank. To say it had an impact on me is putting it mildly.            

     Let’s take a moment, shall we, and step beyond the clichés and paradoxes mixed into the controversy – in particular, the ones that purport to make America great. Perhaps the nation’s primary paradox is “the separation of church and state,” which is both totally sane and necessary and a potentially raw, insulting wound to believers in a loving God.