Bone thin and tiny even before she tried to fold herself into the air, her eyes were large, dark, and brimming.  She looked young; too y...

[continued from Part 1 ] [Northeast of Albuquerque NM, 26 June 2018] So the thing about traveling by train is that there is at lea...

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our m...

Now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci Sometimes it tries to kid me/ that it's just a teddy bear /and even somehow manage to/...

from The Nuremberg Chronicles. Note: how I feel most days. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Christopher (the patron saint of tr...

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit sui...