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

When I was a kid, summer was all about lightning bugs. Well, that and playing outside until 9:30 p.m. Summer days in the Washington, D.C....

The news is depressing, I’m afraid. A twelve-year-old girl was out walking her dog on a farm near the town of Sauðárkrókur, Skaga fjord...

By WALTER GIBBS, The New York Times Published: October 13, 2007 OSLO, Oct. 12 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today Al Gore, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because...

When my brother enticed my mother to move down to Florida, he told her that Cape Canaveral was chosen as the NASA launch site because...

by Tirthankar Mukherjee, The UB Post (Ulaanbatar, Mongolia) Thursday, July 05, 2007 Kalidasa, the Indian poet-dramatist whose Meghadutam...

How poetically appropriate that the End of Humanity should come from such a tiny, sweet source By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist...

This was the surprising headline in today’s New York Times article. Scientists from all over the world are meeting at the U.N.–sponsored...

I live in Florida (or, as one friend calls it, Flori-duh), so the best we can hope for in winter is some slight relief to the endless...

by CHARLES SIEBERT, The New York Times Published: October 8, 2006 “We’re not going anywhere,’’ my driver, Nelson Okello, whispered to me...

If We All Vanished Tomorrow What would *really* happen if all humans disappeared? The Earth grins at the thought By Mark Morford, SF Gate...