NOTE: This article was originally published on May 20, 2017, years before The Pandemic. I was cleaning up old posts on my blogs and thought I’d share this one again. Man, I really can’t wait to cruise and travel the world again! We went on a cruise! It was our fourth cruise. We’ve found that […]
Dream Sequence 3: Into the Storm
“Amagaeru is ready. Are you?” The oversized green frog sat in Tomo’s cupped hands, breathing rhythmically to the sound of the crashing waves. In the distance, dark clouds rolled and the churning sea roared.
How Children Sleep
Sleep is something we share in common with most other living creatures in the world. Every single person spends a third of their lives sleeping. This time of reduced reaction to external stimuli and altered state of mind is necessary to the body. During sleeping hours, the human body goes through a significant number of […]
Seeding Our Solar System with Life
Here’s a crazy idea. What if we went to each of the most habitable planets and moons in the solar system and dumped a load of organic soil, nutrients, bacteria, robust life forms, and seeds onto each planet or moon? Will that spur the development of life on the planets? Will life spread throughout the […]
Dream Sequence 2: The Homocide
I walked my dog along the lonely single-lane road. We came across an intersection where the gravel road met an asphalt road. A rusty gray mailbox sat at the corner, with a small, rusty gray ranch house about twenty yards behind it. Up the paved road was a newer apartment complex, rising about five or six floors up from a hill behind the old house.
Dream Sequence 1: The Flight of the Fish
I’ve been taking care of aquarium fish since I was seven. Until a fateful day last year, I had two albino cories, a tetra, and a few zebra danios in a small tank at the corner of my bedroom. Now, an empty fish tank sits in its place.