I was a junior in high school when I first read Jim Carrol’s famous book The Basketball Diaries. The book is about his adolescence, a descent into sex and drugs after being raised in Catholic schools. At about that time, I had some friends in school who got their own apartment in the south end … More Remembering the Basketball Diaries
It seems clear now that nothing is really what it appears to me, there is always something we can never see. And sometimes bad is good and good is bad.
A couple of weeks ago, I experienced a new milestone, or sorts, but let me give you a little background. As an undergraduate at The Colorado College, I completed a degree in English with a minor in ethnomusicology. I spent part of studies in Bali, Indonesia studying Balinese gamelan. After completing my degree in 1993, … More Twelve Years Later
Brian Arnold 