TODAY'S LESSON: MONEY GOOD, TRUTH BAD
I'm sorry.I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried, and then I tried some more. And the more I tried, the more I realized that I just couldn't do it.I simply cannot see the Fox-Dominion settlement as...
View ArticleWere they celebrating nerds like me... or making fun of us?
Sometimes I just stand there, staring at myself in the mirror and wondering how I keep getting myself into these things...This past Monday night I was here at the office, scouring the digital landscape...
View ArticleI’m Not At All Sure Why, But I Do Remember...
To be honest, I’m really not sure what might have prompted it.It might have been that photograph we ran on the front page of last week’s Johnston County Sentinel of the Stay Golden Inn, the new Airbnb...
View ArticleA BIRTHDAY LETTER TO MY GRANDDAUGHTERS
Dear Zoey and Willow:I realize that you are both too young at the moment to understand most of what I’m about to tell you. Zoey, after all, won’t celebrate her fifth birthday until late October - and...
View ArticleTHE FLASH: MY REVIEW
Okay. So… The Flash.Wow…Just… wow.All right, let’s be honest: Yes, the film has its faults. And I’ll get to those in just a bit. But for the moment…When you’ve a guy who spent most of his first sixty...
View ArticleMAKING THE CASE FOR AN INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY…
I reckon there are going to be some who won’t much like some of what I have to say this time. Apologies for that in advance; it is never my intention to deliberately offend, even on those occasions...
View ArticleCLAYTON TROTWOOD AND THE IDEA THAT FAILED (A CHRISTMAS MEMORY)
The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect… Well, let’s just be upfront and honest about it, shall we? The names have been changed to protect ME. I mean, yeah,...
View ArticleWhich Three Would YOU Pick?
(NOTE: On New Year’s Eve, my Facebook friend posted a photograph of Alan Young in the final scene of the classic George Pal adaptation of The Time Machine, and it reminded me of a newspaper column I...
View ArticleEXPERIMENT IN SHORT FICTION: SUNDAY MORNING WITH AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE
(Digital Art by Me!)Still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Nathaniel Rackham (Smoky Gulch High School Class of 1957 - Go Wombats!) stumbled into the kitchen one Sunday morning after sleeping in late...
View ArticleKORAK AT THE EARTH’S CORE: MY REVIEW
I can’t remember after so many years if it was for a book or a movie, or possibly even a TV show, but years I ago I read a review in which the writer began by saying that the best review he could ever...
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