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It’s hot and it’s dry and the wind is blowing, hard. On summer days like this, the Great American Southwest feels like God’s own hairdryer. No place feels quite right and nobody really suits me and th...
In my last article, I compared the occasionally severe emotional turbulence of life to an out-of-control spin in an airplane; a situation that can be fatal if left uncorrected. The analogy still serve...
There is an event in aviation called a “flat spin.” This is a sudden and chaotic loss of control in which the aircraft remains level but begins to rapidly rotate around its axis, like a dinner plate s...
We experience our lives initially through our senses as a series of sights, sounds, smells and so on. Later we recall and modify the memories that were created by our senses. Together, our senses and ...
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronaut. I grew up in the age of manned rockets and like most boys my age, imagined traveling through space and exploring new planets. The reality of what it too...
It’s a nebulous construct, poorly defined at best. “Love” is a word used to describe an emotion, a commitment, a gut feeling. It is also a common excuse for bad behavior ranging from wall-punching to ...
It’s more than boredom. Ennui is a restlessness, a detached dissatisfaction with life. A soul-sucking downward spiral of lost productivity and cheap dopamine hits. There is a huge wave of distracted c...
In Part I of this series, I spoke about emotion and mystery as hallmarks of a compelling story. In Part II I added the ingredient of authenticity. Now, in Part III, I want to talk about a factor that ...
Wow. Sure are a lot of people on social media today. Artists and scam artists, winners and wanna-bes, influencers and insignificants. Everybody has the secret, proven way to become rich and famous, an...
I was stunned when I got back. The restrooms had been tagged as “unsafe” by some governmental authority and locked shut. People were sleeping in the mud between the buildings. Valuable equipment was m...
Have you ever been so sad that it felt like a physical pain, like you couldn’t breathe? Has someone betrayed you so thoroughly, so unexpectedly that you walked around in a daze, thinking, “How did I n...
Chances are good you are reading this on a backlit electronic screen. Chances are also good that this article isn’t the only thing that has been presented to you on that screen today. In fact, you hav...
It is the spring of 2024, and we find ourselves in the beginning stages of AI-phobia. It’s the latest fad-fear (next to, you know, global thermonuclear destruction). “AI is going to take all our jobs!...
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (speaking as Gandalf)
If you read my work on even a semi-regular basis, you will know that I’m pretty existentially a...
If you’re reading this, chances are you know the feeling. You want a better life, and you’re willing to put in the extra work. So you have a side hustle, something that excites you enough to put in th...
