Happy Easter, Use Your Signal
“With love for mankind and hatred of sins.” – St. Augustine. In other words, love the sinner, hate the sin. It seems black and white, but it covers an area vast and gray […]
Category: Words to Think Upon
He was Spock
I don’t idolize people in the entertainment industry. It’s so hard to make it to the top that most talented celebrities tend to be out of touch with the rest of the world, and for […]
I Saw The Apocalypse
I caught a frightening glimpse of the apocalypse, and it’s worse than you think. Yesterday our power was out all day and we were plunged into a darkness beyond what light can illuminate. I […]
The Sounds of Silence
What if there were a word composed entirely of silent letters? I’ve never heard of such a word, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I didn’t know of the word “qi,” and I still […]
Here’s hoping 2015 is better
I’m not going to lie to you: 2014 sucked. Everybody got sick or hurt at least once, and the world’s a train wreck. On a personal level I lost my first writing job after twenty-three […]
A Farewell To Mark
With mixed feelings I say goodbye to my first writing home, in the same week my column appears for the first time in Kendallville Mall. I’m going from a weekly to a monthly, but otherwise […]
Bleeding Fire Engine Red
The editor of the newspapers I work for asked me for a fire service related article for our Fire Prevention Week insert last week, and this is what I came up with: It’s […]
Bad Artist #5, Words
Haiku to Heteroskedasticity Some words are quite long Heteroskedasticity Is one of those those.* * = “Those those” because the last line needs five syllables. Haikus aren’t easy to write either. – Paul R. De […]
Reality: A Little Less Funny Concept
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK The other night my wife asked me to hand her a bottle of water. I reached for it and said, “When I blow a dollar on a bottle of […]