Decades before he was born, my son already had a name. I was in high school, dreaming about the future, as adolescents do, when I named him Christopher. When pronounced, the name, Christopher Kime, has an alliterative, rhythmic quality that seemed to fit the boy I was imagining. In the …
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Self-mutilation used to be a symptom of a mental disorder. But over the last 10 years or so it has been mainstreamed in the form of tattoos. They seem to be plastered all over most of the under-30 set.
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English is an odd language in many ways, perhaps most prominently in the illogical area of "prepositional idioms." I'll show you what I mean. But first some background.
I grew up in a conservative Christian church with a robustly literal view of Satan. He was pictured as an actual being with mind-invading capacities for temptation and an insatiable lust for doing evil. Despite my upbringing, I had never been able to believe in Satan as anything more than …
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