If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

Wars don't end. Every bullet leaves an exit wound.  Lives stop, dreams collapse, futures implode. “What are th...

Well, sure, in the long run we'll all be pushing up daisies so blah blah.  Old stuff.  Appealing to teen philosophers and assor...

When you've got a deadline  but just can't get your thoughts organized and the words don't flow,  this is how it feels....

Cheyenne Army Scouts led by Lt. E.W. Casey, December, 1890, during the Ghost Dance troubles. Cheyenne Scouts sketched by Frederick...

I've had a similar experience with both my mom and dad. Who hasn't, I suppose, but still it's a funny moment when you dis...

  A short story just a few pages long written by the English novelist John Buchan.  First published in the January-June,1910, issue of Blac...

A sweet but sad song from the 1950s. I can remember my grandmother listening to this song on her old floor model hi-fi record player.  I w...

Overheard: "The peer review system put both Socrates and Jesus to death."

So my Ph.D was not a total waste...

Camus, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in two minutes.

The magnet high school I graduated from was only for students with an IQ of 145 or higher, so, if the above test is accurate, I've de...

And I'll be the torch singer in a slinky dress slit up to here!

I'm sittin' here in the boring room It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time I got nothin'...

A sultry southern summer night, too hot to sleep... That clarinet's got attitude! And that trumpet...!

Everyone dressed properly, the men in suits and ties,  and everyone reading sheet music and  playing real musical instruments with ...

“To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by cont...

 “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”  ― ...

I was browsing the comments to some on-line article and came across a couple of guys discussing the practicality of skeet shooting using a 2...