My parents were the Howard-n-Marion-Cunningham of the neighborhood. They based their parenting ground rules on how something affected their...

It is now possible ( thank you Google Earth ) to collect and compile footprint-shots of every place one's ever lived. This collage refl...

Everyone has their own favorites and nobody shares the same ten (and what a borin place it'd be if t'were). I hope to "discove...

I've previously discussed my desire for an ability to discern good-bad-or-ugly films from their previews. Last month, I compiled an ...

I am inclined to think this man's ear/mouth-coordination work much-in-the-same-way as my eye/hand. Into love and out again, thus I went,...

Last month, I challenged Driz —who's amazing prose can be read at Ex Movere —to provide me with some imagery I could use to refract and...

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. — Dorothy Parker (writer and poet, 1893-1967)

(five postcards from summer to you) - Oh My The people who run the 36-hole disc golf/picnic area/swimming hole/fishing pond/campground/m...

Profiling . It's something every police officer does; all the time, every day.  Every effective police officer becomes an efficient pr...

Being a phrequent-pheckin-philm-o-phile, it will come as no surprise that I want the power to determine (accurately and 100% of the time) wh...

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. — Abraham Lincoln

Last week, a couple bikers and compatriots-on-the-path complimented me on my hiking cat.  They asked: How do you keep him with you? - and -...

          Kirby Archer was introduced to me in 1999 when I assumed duties as the SAC of a small CID office, in a US military community in c...

This is a short non-fiction tale about an employee who I'll forever remember as ' snaggletooth '; a nickname I bestowed upon his...

No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I a...

3.1 mile stroll through the forest today with Cecil. We crossed paths with seven groups of people—three were with their dogs. The first dogs...

On the 2nd of July, my kitten, Powell , died of FIP . Although he was only with me for about three weeks, he and I bonded quickly. A few w...

District 9 is a humorous, character-based, speculative fiction story, which showcases mankind's racism and socio-economic bigotry by tw...

This was in my e-mail. After reading a few sentences, I knew it met the: 'if it seems too good to be true' criteria. But, the pers...

It is 108 º F (42 º C) in Portland today—with a humidity level of about 25%. Phoenix, Arizona and Death Valley Junction, California, are ...

Contemporary art, no matter how much it has defined itself by a taste for negation, can still be analyzed as a set of assertions of a forma...

Kinda drunk in a relatively terrible local brew pub in the city of Newport (yea every city in the entire state has port jammed into it some...