Riding on the Storm

I'd like to preface this essay ( as I've often felt compelled to do ) with a disclaimer - in this case to say I believe that sci...

Given the number of school shootings over the last several decades it seems time we considered innovative approaches. It's been sugg...

I came across the above sculpture in an art magazine from Fort Worth, Texas. How I came across an art magazine from Fort Worth I cannot...

In seeking out what's responsible for the degeneration of American culture over the last 70 years, one finds many culprits to choose...

We got Lucy unexpectedly, when the director of the mental health clinic where my wife worked went crazy, as they all seemed to do eventu...

There's been much talk in America over the years about war. Aside from the unjustified, and unforgivable, wars the American right...

...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 ...