From building cars to scanning the surface of Mars, there’s still one common task that keeps us very, very human. Robots can do anything. The AI is developing at an exponential rate, not to mention the nano-mechanics and physical attributes of our helpful servants, the robots. They clean our floors…

Wisdom from a newly-minted quinquagenarian. “Two weeks ago I came up with the perfect thing to say on this occasion, but I failed to write it down and now, being fifty, of course I forgot. “Already, I’m using sticky notes for everything. “I think my body knows I’m fifty but…

“Do you suck dick?! Do you suck dick?!” Over and over and over again. Not at me, mind you, he was screaming at the other guy, the one who pulled around the corner into the parking lot lane where the screamer was backing out, quickly, hidden from view by a…

Personal question, feel free to answer or ignore (or maybe answer with a pleasant lie): Do I compel drama or am I hyper-sensitive to my own ideas of how things should work versus how they manifest in reality? See, on Tuesday one of our circulator pumps broke and we lost…

No white person can speak to issues of persecution? I forget that the Jews were never persecuted. Or gays. It's easy to be Hindu in America. And I can get any job in the arts I want to support my family. Sure... Feel free to extend your brand of prejudicial…

I wrote a novel. A good one. A damned good one. It took me 13 years to get it down because of all the distractions: work, family, work, deaths, house projects, work and work. …

An Apology to Oxy Addicts Dear Afflicted, This is an apology. I owe you this because I judged you and I failed you. I didn’t put myself in your shoes. I didn’t understand your pain. I didn’t understand your need for OxyContin or Percocet, your desperation for relief, until I…

An Unpopular Reflection on 2020 I received a giffy on New Year’s Eve that said, “Does anyone else feel troubled by the fact that the name of next year is literally ‘2020 Won?’” I like that, it’s clever, but there are a lot of 2020 haters out there and I guess I see it a…

Yes, these days are tense. Looking at the county-maps of the US it feels like there are little Blue boats floating on a massive sea of angry Red. But those vessels are dense and contain great power. As I study the maps and contemplate our differences I correlate our country’s…