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I found a hidden treasure this morning. Several months ago, I treated myself to a second-hand copy of The Essential Ellison, the 35-year retrospective of one of the most prolific authors ever to put pen to paper. He’s a life-long favorite of mine and I wanted this volume quite badly. It’s a 1012-page tome that was out of print, and buying used …[MORE] I am not your enemy. I may be quite different from you in many ways, but you have nothing to fear from me. If I question you about the distinctions between us, it is due to my curiosity and interest in others. I want to know about you, and the more I know, the more I see that we are more alike than different. You …[MORE] I am both eager and tense when I contemplate the upcoming midterm elections. I can’t remember ever being more anxious to cast my vote, and to see how it all comes out. I have a neighbor who regularly works the polls at election times. While I think that’s an honorable thing to do, I’ve never been tempted to join her. Simply put, it’s just more …[MORE] I watch enough videos on YouTube that my algorithm gets stuck in a rut. I watch a lot of news, but even I don’t want to watch headlines from last week, much less from months or years ago. Sometimes, to shake up my searches and produce a new range of suggested videos, I just go randomly surfing all over YouTube. …[MORE] We’ll get back to it in a minute, but for now I’d like you to put aside all thought of the recent Supreme Court agitation and participate in a little thought experiment. It is intended for everyone—male and female, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive. It will take only a few minutes and doesn’t even have to …[MORE] Recently I’ve been spending time with some ancient horrors which lurk in isolation. No, I haven’t been visiting relatives in Amarillo. I’ve been reading H.P. Lovecraft. I became enamored with horror, science fiction and monsters in early childhood. I watched all the scary movies, from Frankenstein and Wolfman to the Things that came from outer space, beyond Mars and beneath the sea. …[MORE] Houston is not exactly Seattle, but it is one rainy-ass place. Recently we’ve had a couple of weeks that were more wet than dry. These conditions have caused a few of my pluviophilic friends to revel in the incessant rainfall. I do not share their affection for rain. In fact, I consider rain an inconvenience at best and, if you …[MORE] I love Mark Twain. His sardonic humor really strikes my funny bone. He said, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” Modern-day management style sums up this wisdom as: “Eat a live frog every morning, …[MORE] As I scan the news, I’m increasingly amused at the last-minute panic the GOP is experiencing in the face of Beto O’Rourke’s Senate race. They’ve been so smug in their position for so long that it just never occurred to them Beto might put up a serious fight for the office. Suddenly he’s within reach of the …[MORE] Lately it seems that, no matter what the topic, the essential issue is someone trying desperately to control someone else. The struggle between dominance and submission lies at the heart of many conflicts, both personal and political. I think it has always been so, but still as a society we seem to be at some fevered pitch. Parents attempt to control …[MORE] |
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