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

The Hindu god Shiva (who has nothing whatsoever to do with sitting shiva) is usually depicted as one of the members of the great Triad,...

Playing Jeopardy! together is a nightly ritual for Mom and me. One of the categories on last night’s Jeopardy! (a repeat from last year,...

The news report was bizarre on so many levels. First, the opening salvo: “An amusement park in China has built what it claims is the...

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

by Jason Godesky, The Anthropik Network I’m dazzled by so much that Jason Godesky has to say, but this article is, to my mind, one of his...

Here’s a journal entry from 2001, written in the thick of my worst depression (one that came perilously close to suicide), when I had to...