There are mentally-stimulating, thought-provoking, and often disturbing side effects to a continuous and non-stop exposure to global events via the Internet. It offers a very unsettling, uneasy, sometimes horrific, and confusing notion of what it means to be human. We are now exposed – through online news, social websites and many other portals – to […]
Read More →Most people love cats or dogs. Maybe birds. Shoot, even reptiles. Snakes. Hamsters. Gerbils. (Seriously, gerbils?) I love the dung beetle. I know, it just seems so wrong. I think the immediate response of most people has to be “huh,” or some more colorful derivation thereof. A great many people simply stare at me blank-faced […]
Read More →He was dreaming. That had to be it. He remembered some of his Shakespeare – To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub, That makes Calamity of so long a life: He did not feel like his life was a calamity. However, he was indeed old – he was completely aware of that fact […]
Read More →Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. – Maurice Chevalier The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing […]
Read More →The official publication of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) is Chess Life magazine. And, they just published a short story that I wrote. Also, please don’t start a sentence with and… Anyway, you can read this great short story and also support the USCF, which is a wonderful organization promoting chess and the fine […]
Read More →I have a love-hate-hate relationship with technology. They (the same nefarious bunch that always promises to build Utopia) told us that technology would make our lives easier. Better. More fulfilling. Simplify things. What a crock of womanure (trying to be gender-sensitive here). How about some examples? Glad you bloody asked. Let’s talk email. Like a […]
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