I was eighteen going on thirty and my world had come apart. The great loves of my life were gone, and I was too proud to go after them. They would come back. I knew it in my bones. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2022
Michael Crichton is a perennial favorite author of mine. I have read many of his books over my life, from my teenage years until now, and I recently went back to reread one of the old and good ones that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was three short years that changed a life. We sang, we played, and we danced. We made beautiful music together in Northern Minnesota. We made Heaven on Earth, and that was all I wanted for the rest of my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I tell people that I am happy with my life. I am. I tell people that I wouldn’t change anything. I tell myself the same thing. But that is a lie. It took me a long time to come to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
She changed my life the day she entered it. Long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and a penchant for yellow sundresses that blew my mind. She was a true Scandinavian beauty. Then there was her cousin. Long brunette locks, dark[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember hundreds of thousands of people protesting election fraud last January 6th. They listened to President Trump’s speech telling them to be peaceful, and then started the hour-long march to the capitol. But Bad Actors had already come to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My parents did everything they could to raise me right. God knows they tried, but I was awful full of myself. I thought I was God’s gift to girls, and the best boy around. I was all that, and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I fell in love in high school. I was trying to puzzle my way through some song I don’t remember, when she grabbed the guitar out of my hands and played it the way it was meant to be played.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have visited Memory Worlds throughout explored space. Some are purely digital, while others are physical recreations of real world or fictional places. I have walked through the streets of Nineteenth Century London, and through the meadows of Middle Earth.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cybernetic Council continues the New Voyager Program to this day. Every colony and survey ship we send into the void carries them. Sometimes they are official members of the expedition. Sometimes they are stowaways. Their tiny microchips scatter upon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…