This may be the point of a Zennish riddle that lit my screen from an anonymous comic djinn of cyberspace: ìLife has its costs and burdens, but it does include free rides around the sun.î Unlike tornados and eclipses, common marvels just arenít salient enough to penetrate the stress o...
I am not sure if the number of folks camping at the club was up or down from previous years, but any cowboy or cowgirl wanting to get into the nomadic lifestyle would have been able to peruse the selec- tion and get a real good idea of what was on the market. To go any further...
Equally, but perhaps more uncomfortably, it is not difficult to understand the utterly heart-wrenching position of some parents, who, in life’s random deck of cards, are dealt the hand of a child with a mental illness and all the side effects of this condition, both on the child and on...
Strongly sweet and floral with satisfaction to the point of being almost cloying; seek below the surface to find the bitterness of quinine, the spicy heat of foxglove, and lingering almond. This is the known manifestation of Elizabeth Ridley, deceased due to heart failure in 1992 at the age...
We watched from the café across the street as gawkers rapidly filled the small Jerusalem square. People of all faiths and walks of life flocked to the spectacle. Ever since Gilgamesh had shown up claiming to be the divine messenger of an ancient god, he'd been quickly gaining followers--pe...
While any piece of fiction about, say, a robot-in-love is going to be entirely forgettable, I am sure you would agree that some of the most unforgettable experiences in real life are its coincidences. I am going to leave you with something which was, for me, the mother of all ...