When times are tough (many seem to think those times are now—a topic for another day) people in general and especially Americans l...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. — Helen Keller

          I don't like people much.           That's the answer I give when asked why I don't chat, or aren't on Facebook ...

          I envy anyone who got the opportunity to visit Yellowstone National Park prior to the 1988 fires , which devastated over a third o...

          After playing this game for a few weeks, I highly recommend it if—like myself—you specifically enjoy 'side games'.  If...

The sentence— I'm proud that I am smart enough to not have any superstitious beliefs —is vainglorious and condescending; but, it's a...

          When I was asked how I celebrated Memorial Day, I tried out the reply:  I don't celebrate May 31st .  It seems I say something...

I love power.  But it is as an artist that I love it.  I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and h...

          Recently, in China, there have been six school-attacks on kindergarten, elementary school and pre-school children.  The first of ...

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day? — Napoleon Bonaparte related art: Unauthorized Portrait ...

          I have a talent (or a curse) which I turned to my advantage during my crime scene investigation days.  My parents innocently plan...

A bout du chapeau to Ptak Science Books ; I include a wonderful yet anomalous "find" of Mr Ptak's:  A future photo of Davecat ...

          I honestly despise every bit and byte of the most recent revelations from the sunset stained stucco-and-concrete hued neurons in y...

In another (failed) attempt to determine why no person I know (and especially no professionals) are capable of acting as my film umpire...I...

          Miscommunication causes more problems than malice, hatred, zeal and greed combined.  Don't lump miscommunication in with error...

Me.  Open to new adventure.  As long as it fits into my current paradigm.  Which, to be a thousand percent honest, is simply:  Never ag...

          The Self Help Center exposes some uncomfortably sharp reflective pieces which don't quite mesh inside of it's author, Rom...

         With a hat-tip and head-nod to Mary Whitsell and her Resident Alien post, A Case of Mistaken Identity ...I share: Northern Ari...

Click above to see the art of the Sistine Chapel and below to view and make your own gif-art. We assert that the subject is crucial, an...

          Evolution is the change in the inherited traits of organisms through successive generations.  Anyone who wants to see proof of on...

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized.  Certified.  Approved for consumption.  People will be happy to give up ...

Your handwriting.  The way you walk.  Which china pattern you choose.  It's all giving you away.  Everything you do shows your hand.  E...

" ...please where can I buy a unicorn? "  Thirteen months ago, the anonymous author of these seven words intrigued me.  Could th...