What should be a pleasant harmonious family time, Thanksgiving day gatherings often turns into a rhetorical and gastrological rumble....

Having broken free from bondage, these critters are tearing up the world and contributing to our destruction according to the climate...

The year is 2039. Facebook and Twitter have been taken over by the UN to preserve global peace and rebranded as UNSOZIAL. The acronym...

Remote control toilets and doorbells with facial recognition. Be afraid. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past...

The Judgmentalist are everywhere. Back in 1986, some lowly Saturday Night Live costume courtier was asked to procure a laughably modest...

The following is a serialized novel set in the year 2039. Wayne, the protagonist, is comfortably warehoused in a state owned late-stage...

Part Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...

In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...

My life started as a snot-nosed kid with curly blond hair riding unbelted in the back seat of my parent's red 1955 Ford station wagon. ...

My notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...

Have you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...

It is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...

Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with small rooms across from each other and a waiting room...

Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...

Freddie was glum. His owner thought he was depressed and did a quick smartphone search for a doggie shrink. Yes! They exist. He tapped...

…and things my uncles taught me. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of which I...

There is a much-used metaphor of a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being warmed on a burner. So imperceptible the water warming...

With the pandemic, and the election, and calls to take a knee or hold up a fist in racial contrition, I hesitate to add to anyone’s...

With all the fanfare a humble post can muster, I announce the birth of our very first 'podcast.' I named her 'There Are No Ordinary...

…goldfish! Ring the alarm! People who study these things are writing research papers telling of our declining attention span- oh… look...