People, Places, & Things

I came of age in the '70s and, through that initial stretch of mid-to-late puberty and into early adulthood, I dressed like the...

I sincerely appreciate every genre of music... Even the Techno stuff that has become so popular... And despite my disdain for some genres that...

In the introduction to my first book, I made a general observation about the human species; "At our core, the primal driving forces...

My appetite was beginning to wane... and it occurred to me that perhaps some of this cultural erosion of common decency and fundamental self - respect could somehow be blamed on the invention of the cell phone. I mean.. think about it.. back in the old days of rotary and push button phones these sorts of conversations more commonly took place in the privacy of your own home and were rarely overheard by random strangers on the streets.

It may not seem like it but maintaining one's Urban Hermit status requires a great deal of effort and commitment. To be good at...

If you are an atheist or non-believer, as you set out to read this entry, I won't hold it against you if you decide...

I did a piece recently, reminiscing about my long-passed Aunt Carrie ("A Cane, A Hatchet, And A Corncob Pipe") and some of the wisdom...

All that kept playing in my head was the advice he had given me at our last appointment. And it came out of me before I even realized I was thinking about saying it out loud.

I remember thinking that maybe that's how the real hell works - an unbearable stretch of torment and misery which is really nothing more then a Purgatory of sorts, intended only to lull you into thinking that it's not so bad after all and that you might actually be able to survive it... before satan opens the door and you get kicked in the face with the REAL hell.

The Coronavirus pandemic is certainly a terrible thing. Not only is it killing people and bringing the world to its economic knees, but it...