Hello, my son. Welcome to Earth. The opening line to Sturgill Simpson's first song from his album "A Sailor's Guide to Earth," has played...

I went to pick up my lunch at a corner cafe in DC the other day and bumped into an old colleague. The first thing she said was, "You...

Still somewhere between REM and consciousness, I rolled over at 6:00 a.m. this morning, trying to make sense of the sound I heard and...

The air was thick with smoke that had drifted south and east from wildfires burning thousands of miles away in Canada. It seemed strange...

It had rained for several days, and when it wasn't raining it was cloudy. Like one of those green and gray-hued movies that, even though...

It was finally over. A two point win by the team clad in orange jerseys, over the team in gray ones. Team Gray had a chance to win at the...

"Y'all take credit cards?" I asked the Park Ranger. It's 9:00 a.m. on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. The line of cars waiting to...

The coffee maker just beeped, signaling its intent to stop heating the remains of any liquid left in the pot. I know there is a little...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. It was a cheesy sign hung on a wall in an Airbnb my...

A steady hum of suitcases rolling across tile floor, loud machinery moving heavy objects, and excited and hopeful travelers' voices fill...

The plot of Netflix's series "Dark" centers around the "bootstrap" or "grandfather" paradox - which poses the question of whether a...

Did ya do a double-take? Holy clickbait, Batman! April Fools! Yeah, I'm a day late but it would have been obvious yesterday. Had to do...

I don't really write to "plug" things. I'm not using my blank canvas to make money by advertising on behalf of any products, groups, etc....

Back in December I said that I would be writing a blog EVERY DAY until my time started filling up. Well, that time has come. High school...

First off, conflating means "to bring together, merge, or fuse." I had to look it up. Just in case. It's one of those words that sounds...

I possess a piece of neon green solid silicone, shaped like an egg, though larger - maybe the size of an avocado. One of the sides is...

OK, OK. I'm back at it. I know you've missed me. And my daily musings about whatever the heck is rattling around in my brain. The past...

Did you make a resolution? Did you eat a ton of cookies over the holidays like me and are seeing them in the mirror? Did you make it one...

On Sunday night I was watching the Browns vs Steelers in a highly anticipated matchup. In recent years I've become a bit of a Browns fan...

Studying English was so boring. I can speak it, what is there to study? Literature? What even is that? Reading books from hundreds of...