Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli U-S-A…U-S-A… Wearing the same pair of boxers for the third day in a row, my whole body aching from sleeping in the airport, the 5 euros in my pocket literally the only money I…
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young Isn’t snow beautiful? The graceful tumble of those flakes. The powdering of the ground, every dimple in the road, every lonely branch, fleeced in the serenity…
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home…The aggregate of our joy and suffering… every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,”…
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton With the right combination of words, I can convince anyone to do anything. Or so I believed when I was eight-years-old, standing beside my brother after persuading him to stick sleeping Dad’s fingers in a bowl of warm water. And even though Dad woke instantly…
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. — Edgar Allen Poe A cat’s hideous screech. A door slammed in a distant room. Icy fingers ghosting down your spine. Halloween is nearly upon us, and to celebrate one of my favorite holidays, I have written you a scary short, short story….
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. — John Maynard Keynes I’m certain I can read your mind. Look at the picture below and assign one of them the name “Bouba” and the other “Kiki.” Now, let me put my fingers to my temple, tap…