September 2011
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October 2010
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January 2010
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Pamela and Roe vs Wade.
“For you created my inmost being, You knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139: 13,14
Emily,
When I found out you and Clark eloped, I was overwhelmed. My initial reaction was mixed with feelings of happiness and worry. How could she get married so soon after Pam was found? Is everything alright? I thought you and Clark...
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December 2009
7 posts
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on… when in...”
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Frodo
Tolkien’s Return of the King
Your English teacher needs you.
After your first ride in the boat, we are friends. Five minutes between classes and seven minute car rides every day but Thursday help us build trust as you share your life experiences, intensely putting my simple teen angst to shame. Your mother didn’t want to be a mom, and your dad didn’t want to be a dad, so they both left. Your grandparents raised you, and you thought you were spoiled. ...
The Boat
Two point two miles. Seven minutes if you’re in a car, and didn’t get stopped by a train. Forty-four minutes if you’re walking carefully and manage to not get hit by one of the crazies who somehow got a license here in town. There’s no bus that will take you from your high school to your father’s work downtown, even with a bus stop right in front of the school. Taxis are too expensive to use...
My first death
Her name is your name, in which case I miss you dearly.
Welcome, freshmen.
People think they find themselves in high school and college, as if there could be some magic in the classrooms and stadiums that reveal the future and give the deepest satisfaction to the spirit. I purpose that those who truly find themselves in high school live a very short life, and those who define themselves and stay as they were in high school live an even shorter life than those who truly...
My favorite web site →
A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S, over 2,100 per day. In excess of 800,000 children are reported missing each year (information taken from www.missingyouorg.com). Missing You: The Incomplete Story of Pamela Mikels Waldher is a unique novel. It is one that is very capable of touching the lives of many people. It was written to bring her story, and missing cases in general, to the...
“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way....”
– Claude Monet