“Is this Heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa.” Most any baseball fan will immediately recognize the quote above from the iconic movie Field of Dreams. Remember when a reanimated Shoeless Joe Jackson looks back across a beautiful baseball field in Iowa farm country and asks Ray Kinsella that loaded question? No doubt, this moment speaks to the trials and tribulations that go along with rescripting one’s past and actualizing a dream, not
As you have probably already heard, the FBI recently seized and closed down the notorious black market Internet site “Silk Road,” along with its creator, twenty-nine year old Ross Ulbricht. While many law-and-order types gathered together online to applaud the news, others were shocked and disappointed by the government’s actions. Silk Road offered its army of users access to some of the purest, most potent substances currently available to consumers. Over
I told my girlfriend she needed to move out, and to my surprise, she did so that very day. I figured she’d get lonely and fearful of having to be by herself and wouldn’t be able to live without me. But instead, she actually just got stronger and happier with every passing second, it seemed like. I was thinking to myself, “Damn, this wasn’t supposed to happen.” But then I finally just admitted
