“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.” – John Wayne It has been a handful of days since I wrote the Kiss My Asteroid story and I haven’t looked at it until just now. Aside from correcting some grammar, I didn’t want to touch it. As I wrote in that...

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan Christ, it’s Sunday and I shouldn’t be writing. I have now gotten into the habit of publishing stories on Friday afternoon, usually because I sit with them for at least several days. It is creatively...

“You will not be punished for your anger, You will be punished by your anger.” The Buddha Today, is election day and this story will continue until the results are hopefully and expeditiously announced. These are times when I ever so briefly fantasize about being a...

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”Ursula K. Le Guin I have been thinking about writing some basic stuff that I believe in and much of it comes from the Buddha. Being an honest kind of guy, I didn’t like the idea of...

“Writing is its own reward.” Henry Miller I was sitting on my cushion this morning, which is definitely not unusual. It’s funny, I’ve read all sorts of crap about meditating. What does it mean? How do you do it? How do you know when you are enlightened? It goes on and...

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.” Groucho Marx Last night, I was seriously thinking about how I would cope if the fellow, who won the last election he lost, was to actually win this time. I am not kidding. Then, it got...

“When we come to itWe, this people, on this wayward, floating bodyCreated on this earth, of this earthHave the power to fashion for this earthA climate where every man and every womanCan live freely without sanctimonious pietyWithout crippling fear” Maya Angelou This...

“He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars." Jack Kerouac It is Friday evening, around 6PM. I am home with nothing to do. Really, for most of the day, I was thinking...

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” Friedrich Nietzsche This could be one of my best beginnings ever. I have started writing, because I got tired of writing. What? Several stories ago, I told you I got...

“We are made of star stuff.” — Carl Sagan Billions of years ago and billions of miles away, this limitless space we occupy, our tiny speck of cosmic dust, doesn’t seem to mean shit to the vast majority of us. I saw that photograph above, taken by the James Webb Space...