This was the happiest she had felt in decades. Even her t-shirt had the word “happy” on it. She had been sad for so long that she needed to proclaim, for the world to see, her full scale happiness. This was bliss. All the past pills, jobs, friends, […]
Don’t be frightened. Come right in. Anchor your boat and feel the seabreeze gently push you through the door. Despite the blood dripping from her mouth and her ghoulish grin, she is but a gentle child. She will do you no harm, I promise. That is, […]
Just last a few weeks ago, we were talking to a person we just met at a bar about how there is no longer honor amongst thieves. Mafiosos used to have certain rules they lived by. Nowadays everything is a free-for-all. Luckily for us as a […]
She had been a wanderer for most of her life. She went in and out of people’s lives without much thought or care. She didn’t feel wedded to any one place in particular. It was exciting yet felt like nothing. Sometimes, it felt like her life was […]
It is a sad fact of my life that often when I travel some tragedy occurs. Actually, it is not a sad part of my life. Its a sad part of the collective pain we all experience. With social media and 24 hour news cycles we are […]
I avoid television newscasts like the plague. Or at least I try to do so. I’m not perfect and occasionally, I catch a news segment or two. And then, I hit myself in the head for having done so. I know better. It’s all the same […]
A few years ago, I used to diligently on a weekly basis do a column on what I deemed to be the crazy news of the week. I used to write about “wacky” occurences. I used to cover scientific findings, the latest Kardashian shenanigans, dumb criminals and so […]
Look, the world is chaotic. There’s no other way of describing the world in which we currently live. Just yesterday, there were three shootings (mass) in the United States. There were also many heartbreaking stories of loss, death and fear throughout. Watching the local news is a grand […]
There is this research finding that psychologists often use in their statistics classes to showcase the problem with what is called a spurious correlation. I promise, by the way, this won’t be a wonky post. Occasionally, I must live up to my name. So, do you know that […]
Sometimes I want to write a letter to the powers that be to let them know that I would be ok with the world being normal for once. Last year, when we headed off to South Africa everything seemed more or less normal. Well, as normal […]
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