I remember the moment I knew the kind of father I wanted to be. As I read through hundreds of lines of the Iliad in my first year at university, I read about the champion of Troy: Hektor. Homer describes him often with his bronze war helm, shimmering in the sunlight. The same helmet frightened his son as he came to greet his lovely wife and young son atop the tower at Ilion in … [Read more...] about Hektor, The Father
Happiness
Lifeworld
This started as a piece about student loans, aged as an art-history expose, and ends, predictably, with supplication. I am currently 75,000 dollars deep in a hole called student loans. A bit like Hades, with compounding interest playing the role of Sisyphus, full of defeat. Where to go? Is there an escape? That $75,000 hole was offered to me as an 18 year-old. Stupid and … [Read more...] about Lifeworld