Agents of the Undertow:

They have always been my heroes.

Mavericks, outlaws, malcontents and rebels, each of them...

About

Jack McDaniel.net is my personal site. I began this site when my daughter was born and it was primarily meant to record my thoughts and observations about our lives and the world going on around us.

There are two types of writing on the site. Agents of the Undertow is a collection of personal essays that I hope to collect for my daughter for when she is older. Some of them have appeared in various literary magazines - probably in a slightly different form. The journal contains my rants on religion and politics - and on the unfortunate crossing of the two.

I am a graphic designer, working in both the print and digital worlds. Impress Design - my professional creative outlet - is located in Parker, Colorado, but I have clients from as far away as Hong Kong and as close as next door.

My first design job was in 1977, a tri-fold brochure for a local church. Everything was hand-drawn. Technologies have changed. Now we can create more sophisticated campaigns, ads, brochures and other pieces right from our desktops. But the power of a well-crafted, simple message remains the same.

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Contact me with any questions or comments. And thanks for visiting!

From Agents of the Undertow

Female Math

Feb

2008

Some things are so indelibly etched into our framework of electrical impulses, DNA encoding, and sweat and dreams that we rarely question their rationality, let alone their existence. There are times, however, when a psychic knock on the head causes us to stop and look at things anew,

Agents of the Undertow

Apr

2007

Take this picture: a young child stands in the half-sunlight beneath a group of large pine trees, reaching out to touch the flowers and smell their spring-time fragrance. The child is smiling. The back of her printed dress hangs loosely

Sunshine Market Souvenirs

Apr

2007

The Sunshine Market shows up in the backs of station wagons and temporary tents every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in a little park in the heart of Hanapepe, “The biggest little town on Kaua’i”.

From the Journal

Not Like Us

Jun

2007

Jonathon Sachs, writing for the Times Online, recently wrote: "The real battle, and it applies to secular and religious alike, is: can we love, not hate, the people not like us? "

Arrested for What?!

Apr

2007

Freedom of Speach is one of the constitutional guarantees that we all seem to understand and protect with a great deal of vigor. It's integrity is essential to a well-functioning democracy.