Another Sunday, another disconnected day contemplating what is and what should be. The shambles that is my life and whether there is any hope in it. Thoughts of killing myself (let’s be honest, though I admit I am drawn to the gentle euphemisms and slippery, soft phrases “move on” and “end it” and “take my [...]

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Situation
A man is sealed inside a windowless elevator and either suspended above the ground by a crane or towed through deep space at a constant acceleration of approximately 32 feet per second per second. There is no way for the man inside to know the difference. If he were to drop a penny from his [...]

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In the right light all glass is a mirror. Wash your face!

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Patriotism. It’s become a distasteful, even shameful, word to me. I don’t know when it changed, at what point in the evolution of my thinking the mere invocation of the word started to make me shiver.
I love this country, though not to the exclusion of all others. The United States is a good place to [...]

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For a few years when I was five or six I lived in a trailer park called Lake View Terrace. The lake was really a gravel pit and the terrace was the eroded slope between the row of trailers and the water. Fortunately we were at the end where they were no longer actively excavating [...]

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I wake from only an hour of sleep with a dream that I’m holding her. It was grey and we were waiting for morning. There was no danger, just time. We went to sleep apart and I woke on my side, cradling her. There was fire where our clothed bodies touched. I could see the [...]

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