Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

I was watching an epsiode of The Dog Whisperer this morning. A fellow in a wheelchair was having trouble with his dog who, though...

My parents are appearing in my dreams with disturbing frequency now. After my father died in 1982, I saw him in dreams and dream-states...

Today’s thunderstorm came a bit earlier than usual, around lunchtime, and it was particularly violent for a while. I looked out the front...

The past week has been extremely hard. Mom died two months ago yesterday, though it feels far more recent. After the funeral came the a...

Since I can’t sleep, I might as well write. Not that I have anything momentous to say (except that my hit counter just hit 45,000). In...

One of the most obvious and astounding changes in my behavior since Mom died is that I am waking up spontaneously much earlier than I...

I’ve been waking up lately with my head crammed with a bunch of disjointed thoughts. That in itself is not unusual; my head is a...

Yesterday was Day One in several significant ways. The Great Funeral Trip is done, and Mom is resting with Dad in Maryland. Now I have an...

Bread and I are coming to a parting of the ways. I don’t know if I have a wheat allergy, or I’m sensitive to gluten, or if it’s those...

From an online forum: Many of my friends in their 30s are starting to play around with psychedelics again. Mushrooms & LSD. I guess we...

In the seventh grade, we were taught Modern Math. My teacher, a man with a thick Southern accent whose face looked like one of those...

by Jeffrey Weiss, DallasNews.com The psilocybin mushroom was a tripper’s choice back in the 1960s. Actually, it was the herbal head-trip...

Many people will say it is morally acceptable to pull a switch that diverts a train, killing just one person instead of the five on the...

Einstein told us that matter and energy are the same Stuff moving at different speeds. The molecules in ice move very slowly indeed. They...

In an earlier post about a fascinating (and more than a little surreal) discussion about quantum physics in an online humor and gossip...

Today was a difficult day, but I’m not entirely sure why. My car was repaired in record time, and cost half as much as the original...

In many countries, a sneeze that occurs after making a statement is often interpreted as a confirmation by God that the statement was...