Today is March 14, 2024. I was going to go through and delete all the contents on this website and stop paying for it. But then… I started to look through what I was trying to do years ago and found this “manifesto” I posted 8 years ago.

If I remember correctly, it […]

Coming soon…

Soon = December 24, 12:01 A.M.

NOTE: I have tried to make it a yearly tradition to write a yearly Christmas story for my friends. See: “Jungle Bells,” “The Nefarious History of a Former Christmas Tree,” and “The Christmas Crows.” This year the story seems a bit of a downer, but it was an attempt to give voice to some […]

Doesn’t look like I am going to post something every 1.somethingorrather days. This doesn’t mean I’m not writing, or feeling AGOG at any number of things. William Stafford wrote about the necessity of “launching many expendable efforts” and I realize that so many of the things that I start, or attempt, don’t work. But […]

In January 1939, E.B. White wrote:

I was sorry to hear the other day that a certain writer, appalled by the cruel events of the world, had pledged himself never to write anything that wasn’t constructive and significant and liberty-loving. I have an idea that this, in it’s own way, is bad news.

All word-mongers, […]

The Protestant Reformation began 500 years ago.

Henry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago.

Historians will ask about this day, and this year.

They will ask, “What were they thinking?”

They will ask, “What did they do about it?”

For what it’s worth, I will have a record of both.