I’m not much of an environmentalist, mostly just paying lip service to the idea, but one of the things I truly regret is the decline of the firefly. When I was a kid living in extremely rural [REDACTED], Kentucky, I would see so many of them at night that the fields I played in looked …
When I was in junior high in Winfiield, Tennessee there was a boy named Dewayne who would pester everyone he came in contact with. One of the ways he used to get on my nerves was to poke me in the side with his index finger. For some reason, every time he did this, he …
Editor’s Note: Originally this post was rife with links and sources documenting the phenomena described from both mainstream and fringe sources. Those links are over a decade old and mostly no longer active, so I have removed them. If you are curious about them you could likely dig them up with a Search Engine. Well, …
I’m reading a book entitled 1996 by Gloria Naylor, which details a fictionalized story of one woman’s real belief that government agents are harassing her on a daily basis because she is Black and cried at the Million Man March. Somehow this translates into the NSA believing that she is an Anti-Semitic, Radical Supporter of …
I have another entry I’m supposed to write first, but it’s on a sensitive issue and I’m not sure I want certain people finding it. It’s unlikely that they would, but if they did, it would cause a great deal of embarrassment. (More than I’ve opened myself to already!) Instead in this entry I’ll write …
Last night I had a wild dream. I dreamed that I was on an airplane, and suddenly it was hijacked by a humble looking WASP couple in their mid 20’s. The woman looked like Naomi Watts and the man I recognized as some type of actor, but I can’t remember his name or any films …