"For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her 'Sibyl, what do you wan...

"Opus operatum" translates as "the work wrought." I like that word: wrought.  I haven't generally feel like my poetr...

My dad loved football.  When I tell my story -- the heretofore still short and unfinished long form -- I sometimes begin, in the style of T...

Rain today and tomorrow. Some wind now. I don't mind rain or the raggedy yard. I'm making peace with the hole in the roof until the ...

I keep me  in a drawer:  saved for  special occasions   when I can't be  spared the  indignity  of proving,  by some  bureaucratic  stan...

artwork by Darrell McKinney Maybe someone should give those Madison Street marketing cutthroats a cigar, because it's three decade...

2. There's a coffee shop walking distance from the shelter. These days I haunt coffee shops like I used to haunt bars. I went to...

I had recent conversation about higher education and my thoughts on returning to the classroom, and while digging through some old files...

Wednesday, from The Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, KY:   Instead of observing Lauds and Mass this morning I came down to the cafeteria to...

Jean Baptiste Rochambeau: traitor but not bad game designer The aftermath of every major life decision is that my brain, my  old enemy...

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1. trucker cap ____preferred ball caps. Some people later referred to them as “trucker caps.” The only other kind of hat ___ ever s...

Central Air is busted. We sleep with the windows opened strategically to take advantage of the cooler night air. At 3:37 in the mornin...

I am sick of the world through a social media lens I am sick of bad distillation, sick of all the negative inflation, sick of feeling ...

Compiled in the early 12th century, Konjaku monogatarishñ, or the "Tales of Times Now Past" is an anthology consisting of more ...