I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
I chose this book because it is about Robert Louis Stevenson’s pilgrimage across southern France. I half expected a satire on the order of Don Quixote by Cervantes. Instead, this short book was part travelog and...
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...