December 14, 2025 Have you ever thought about what you would have done differently if you’d been given a second chance at something?  This is a rather broad question, with sci-fi connotations; and one that may have many of us flipping through our mental rolodex of failures and misunderstandings only to come up with a…

November 30, 2025  Within languages from all around the world, there exist certain words that simply don’t translate directly to any other culture’s experience of what those words actually, deeply mean.  A definition or description of that word may be provided to reach some understanding of its intended meaning, but there is often no direct…

November 9, 2025 Writing a song using only two notes or painting a picture using just three colors; writing a book that is absent of the letter ‘E’….Call it Minimalism or creative restriction or whatever you wish, this idea of negative space is something that is crucial within the art world; but does it have…

October 26, 2025 It’s well into the autumn season in the Midwest and while it’s historically brisk by this time of year, it’s still hotter than hell.  This indicates a number of issues, climate change being one that seems to top most socially conscious people’s lists.  One that arbitrarily ranks much further down the list…

October 19, 2025 Have you ever dropped a a bowl of pasta sauce on the kitchen floor, cursing outloud “of course that fucking happened!”.  Sure, we proceed to complain about the mess that it made or that we’re complete idiots or that somebody distracted us, but deep down isn’t it always just because that’s the…