Tag: Needle

My brother called last weekend and informed me that one of his best friends had gone missing. My brother lives in Reno and his friend recently moved in with his mom relatively close to my house here in Southern California. My brother felt the pull to come down here and search for his missing frie...

Itwas the chicken feet soup that did it. The soup and the heat under the tin roofs covering most of the market. And all the signs in Thai. She didn’t speak Thai, but she knew the word for chicken, gai, and approached the vendor, carefully enunciating the g-a-i. The sign said — or at...

There is a saying in the Bible that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In my Catholic elementary school days, we were taught this meant, in essence, that if you are rich you can’t get into Heaven. It wealth-sha...