The Urban Resident

Tag: hope

  • To Save Much People Alive

    “Who are you going to jump?” I asked sharply.  “Look me in the eye and tell me.” He couldn’t do it.  We kept talking in circles, getting more and more frustrated.  There was big talk earlier about it, about banding together with friends to beat up some kid.  I had confiscated a stick that he…

  • Part 2: On Hope

    After a brutal series of Christmas shifts in the ER, I had finally come home for the holidays.  My mother and I were in the kitchen, talking like we used to.  We had seen and loved the new Les Miserables film, and so I brought up an interesting question from an interview with Samantha Barks,…