The Friend
Have you seen these commercials for Lyft and Uber? They're almost identical, which makes me wonder if they hired the same ad agency, but...
The Scourge
In 1900, one-third of deaths in the US were children between ages one and five. Pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, and enteritis,...
The Storyteller
I'm a novelist and a blogger. Bloggers are a rather recent phenomenon. Believe it or not, the novel as a form hasn't been around all that...
The Kindness of God
"The whole outlook of mankind might be changed if we could all believe that we dwell under a friendly sky and that the God of heaven,...
The Bohemian
I've attended few plays in my life. One regret I have is not seeing Shakespeare performed in an outdoor theater in London when I had the...
The Ghost
I've considered becoming a ghost writer. Everyone has a story, but not everyone has the ability or desire to write it. A person may be...
The Fight
Anyone who knows me well has seen me resist excitableness. Is that a word? Well, I don't have it -- the ability to become excited. If I'm...
The In Your Face, Messy Faith
I'm not sure when the concept of genres of music was invented. Maybe they've always been a thing. There are many different kinds of...
The Flash
Microfiction. Flash fiction. It seems to be a trend in the past few years, but you may have heard the most famous example of...
The Silence
Silence. The absence of sound. If you were born deaf or choose to wear good earplugs, the result is the same: you live in a world absent...
