Posts Tagged ‘cars’
My Hooptie: An Imperfect Analogy for Gentrification
<![CDATA[Imagine if your car was a clunker, (back in the day, we would've called it a "hooptie") but it was the only car you've ever known. Both your parents drove that car, practically raised you in that car, before passing it onto you. You drive it all through high school and college, doing your best to…
Read MoreDriving in the Spirit: Traffic Epiphanies for the Modern Christian
<![CDATA[ While vacationing in December, I stumbled upon an engrossing book with a gloriously inflated title (even longer than the title of this post): Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt. It’s a fascinating read, because it manages to synthesize mountains of research into understandable…
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