I retired from full-time employment recently, which has given me the time to think about things from a truly inward-looking perspective. Some of it is downright inspired, though not necessarily inspiring. Nevertheless, I’m going to share a recent lightbulb moment with you now. It’s yours to ponder. What if every…

I do not come off as a passionate person in public, but I harbor some hidden urges. One of which is eating. Not to a gastronomic level but merely sensual, in the manner of a sex tourist. I do not know the latest chefs or which cuisines are currently fusing…

The last gasps of a since-passed thunderstorm hung a veil over the full moon. The night unrolled in a particular direction and a thousand people followed its lead. They didn’t know where it was headed. How can anyone know? They didn’t care. Not about themselves or their own safety. …

Are you now, or have you ever been? I was once, but it was long ago. * Where were you? Who was there with you? I don’t remember where I was or who I was with… * Nonresponsive. Try again. I remember some faces. …

Dad passed away last night. It was a storybook ending of sorts, not exactly a heart-tugging finish with violins rising to meet the setting sun, since it involved my mother yelling at him not to leave her while I tried in vain to revive him in advance of the EMT…

America is in crisis. America is always in crisis, but most Americans don’t recognize that simple fact of history. We brought the art of the duel to these shores. And the vendetta. We are always looking for a fight because we were Europe’s brawlers and Europe was happy to be…

Life is binary. It either exists or it doesn’t. The Earth is alive, as is the whole universe. In searching for signs of life, we conveniently ignore these facts. Stars and their planets are symbiotic partners, their respective masses acting to massage the other and keep each partner vital. They…

We are all prisoners of the Corporate Monolith. We are all simultaneously its agents and its victims. There is no arguing who we are or where we are, or why. Our intra-species symbiosis is mercantile more than social. We produce and consume, consume and produce. Our evolution brought us here…

Many of us on the Progressive side of the aisle feel border security was always a question of conditions throughout the world. If things were hunky-dory in Italy after the First World War, Grandpa Elmo may never have felt the urge to emigrate with his family. If the potato crop…