The Second Chapter An ode of sorts to an area and the friends we have there. As my time out here is almost complete, I feel like I need to say something memorable to mark it. Whether I have it in me or not is another matter. After all, when…

Observations on Taking a Different Path For Patty. “Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did…

Jack Armstrong had always been fascinated by that place Superman went to think and be alone. But he had always wondered why the Man of Steel had built it in the arctic cold. That just didn’t square. After all, Superman seemed the smart, logical type. Why was his escape house…

Chapter One Jack Armstrong awakened. The first rays of dawn’s light were filtering through the blinds, giving the room that new brightness, washing away the night’s dreams. He loved the moment. He’d lay there unmoving, only the eyes working, taking in the new day’s first minutes of light. The rest…

“I’ve been first and last, Look at how the time goes past. But I’m all alone at last, Rolling home to you.” -Neil Young, Old Man The call I thought I would always dread came on a brilliant, late January, Friday afternoon. I was about three months into a year-long…

A story come down from the hills, told by the town sage, in the dialect he would deliver it. There was a storm brewin’ up in the hills. The whole deal started when the town sheriff, Seth Jenkins, had his name come up in a fedral investigation into racketeerin’ and…

Some might think this is a strange existence — Living in different places and moving around, it seems. I never planned on going back to any of the old places. I’m not made to stay in one location — Not yet. Sure, I thought we’d be fully settled by now. …

Become a Renegade from the Current Cults In modern English, a cult is a social group, defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. …

The Welcome to the Machine Podcast — Episode 16 In early 2020, when it became increasingly clear that organized sports was going to have to pay attention to the Covid-19 outbreak, the first sport to be impacted was the NBA, when it suspended the 2020 season indefinitely on March 11…