Only Prayer Will Save You from Prison
My home is a capricious dalliance between sanctuary and penitentiary. The invisible, outside world, where one imagines germs and viruses...
Broken Beauty
Something becomes imperative when glass shatters. It demands a response, a snap to attention, a head turn, a dash to the kitchen. Or when...
Prayer Won't Help
You don’t need to be told that everything is about the coronavirus. On the news, social media, standing in line at the grocery store,...
Ocean Pursuit or Symbols of Ruin
I don’t know where I saw it first. Facebook or Instagram or maybe it was in a newspaper, but I saw a boat run aground at Oregon Inlet. I...
On War Reenactments
In the last couple of months, I’ve been to two war reenactments. Being in North Carolina, clearly one of them was a Civil War...
Looking Up
Faithful readers of The Hungry Pelican will have surely noted by now that I haven’t been so faithful about writing. Well, the good news...
God, Not Another Eureka Blog
For all the outdoor activities I do, camping, hiking, living on a deserted island for days by myself, I’ve never really considered myself...
Caged and Insignificant
Last week, I went to this zoo that’s not exactly a zoo. It’s a place called Tiger World. While I don’t know much about it, Tiger World...
Dorian's Subtracting
I don’t want to give you a news report, so suffice it to say, Dorian destroyed the Bahamas. Who didn’t ask where God was? Who dying...
Sharks or A Strangely Warmed Heart
When you’re copping off heads, it helps to have a serrated knife. I didn’t, so I more or less mashed my fillet knife through fish bones...