Books

Live Not By Lies

Upon reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Live Not By Lies, I decided to publish it here, since Truth is a core tenet...

Tommy’s Homer: Another Short Story Challenge

One night I gave myself this writing challenge: Could I conjure a random opening scene tonight, then turn it into...

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

The War Prayer was written by Mark Twain in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American...

17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian

The following article by Maria Popova was originally published at The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings), and really resonated...

Announcement: My Story Published in Shallow Waters Horror Anthology!

My flash fiction story The Road Home has been included in Crystal Lake Publishing‘s huge Shallow Waters horror Flash Fiction...

UPDATED: Video: Meet Logos Hope, the Bookstore & Cultural Center on a Cruise Ship!

Back in January, I published an article about Logos Hope, the “book fair” and cultural/educational center on a cruise ship,...

Contemplation: Rendering Unto Caesar

I’m currently in the throes of this amazing 1030-page novel, The Instructions by Adam Levin… …and in the process, I...

William Shatner on His Experience In Space

In October 2022 William Shatner published a new book, a memoir entitled Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe...

A Message to Garcia

I recently stumbled across this little story by Elbert Hubbard, evidently penned in 1899 and published 1944, and it really...

Video: Meet Logos Hope, the Bookstore & Cultural Center on a Cruise Ship!

I recently learned of Logos Hope, a “book fair” and cultural/educational center on a cruise ship, the fourth such ship...

Contemplation: Ending the War on Drugs by Criminalizing ALL Drugs

I recently read A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava, and it was one of the most engaging novels...

Mindset Shift

As many of you probably know, I’m taking the month of December (2022) off my job (taking advantage of a...

A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India—its Cause and Cure

The following letter was penned by Leo Tolstoy in 1908, in reply to a letter from the editor of Free...