“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he...

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis I do...

“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – William Shakespeare, Othello...

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...

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. ...

It was great being young! Eat anything in any quantity and your body took the abuse without complaint. If it did revolt, it would be...

It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...

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

Theodore Dalrymple is a gifted essayist. Well-traveled and possessing a piercing critical eye, he observes the rare, the obscure, the...

I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...

If you’re a ‘boomer’ and not paying close attention, you may not know what ‘cosplay’ is. Maybe you heard the word, and if not for the...

Seventy-three years ago, Albert Camus wrote a novel he titled ‘The Plague.’ It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has enjoyed a resurgence...

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

If you prefer to listen to this essay, please click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast...

…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...