I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
In this scenario, the more an aging man comes to grip with humanity, civilization, and himself, basically the more he focuses internally, the more people around him consider him demented. As his distinction between valuable and...
“Bye Honey, I’m off to visit my sister. I’ll be back in a week. Dinner is in the oven and don’t forget to feed Fred.” Then follows that peculiar human lip smacking sound that is curiously similar...
A sci-fi story idea that came to me while walking on Lancaster road recently. This story was Not selected for publication by dailysciencefiction.com . The flashing lights were the first sign of trouble. Not the emergency...
The odyssey actually began about a year ago when the old bath fixture began to leak. I could ignore it for awhile by pulling the shower curtain closed. The drip, drip, drip sound could be temporarily...
Home plumbing projects are partly about fixing leaks and partly about learning humility in the face of nature. Nature is the universal intelligence that guides all of the activities that mankind does not. As a human...
Cats seem to function on a different wavelength than humans. A cat’s mental model circumscribes a world in which humans intrude only on a sporadic, as-needed basis. Once a cat’s basic requirements for a comfortable life...
While browsing thru various newsletters that had been piling up in my inbox lately I came across two articles that had similar themes and were written by people in my age group, more or less. Notice...