Riding on the Storm

...For all sad words of tongue, or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier In A Questi...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm doing as a writer. In this age of media over-saturation, does anyone have time t...

A central thing we do as human beings, in our interaction with one another, is learn to block out psychic pain; and the degree to whic...

Al Frankin's resignation over charges of sexual misconduct, allegedly occurring decades ago, and never substantiated by anything but ...

Eighteen years after deciding to pursue serious writing - that is, writing not just intended to entertain, but also to express some ideas ...

Having completed my volume of collected essays, 2014 to 2017, I determined I needed to re-access my original purpose in writing this blog. ...

In order for the reader to understand this story, a few words must be said about a family and the patriarch of this family who died nea...

I'm not a biologist, but I found this book to be strangely intriguing nevertheless. It delves into life at the micro level more inter...

Moment's of Being is a unique and frightening book, but it isn't the kind of fright generated for effect - the smoke and mirrors...

I've been looking forward to reading this book for a long time. This and "Homage to Catalonia" are two of Orwell's books ...