Editor’s Note: I am in a Days Inn motel in western Connecticut- this was as far as I could get on my drive north yesterday due to appalling traffic in New York City. I think this drive marks a tipping point of sorts. For most of my life I never thought a long drive was […]

Editor Note: Traveling. Comms may be spotty. Joyful event in another state. More to follow, I hope. – Vic Hollow Men Author note: I apologize in advance for this piece’s bleakness over the political barrenness in Washington DC. -Marlow Healthcare system — it’s dying, sir. The Hollow Men A trillion more for poor gals and […]

Author’s note: With mouth agape, I read that the boys and girls in our empire’s capitol city were about to consider approving the discussion of something called skinny repeal. Is that anything akin to “Oui, peal, and oui, place.” Many do not like President Trump But most do not like the DC stuffed shirts We […]

As with almost everyone who is invested in the American stock markets, the past nine months have been a boon. Since everything that goes up must come down, at least a little, I’ve been looking for ways to manage this risk. Listening absent mindlessly to cable TV blues and rock-n-roll channels, I was astonished to […]

One of my fellow shipmates wrote of the distinct smell based memories in a piece last week about long ago port call in the Philippines. While I am not an urban smellscape researcher, I was so genuinely struck by his turns of phrase that I started to list the dominant smell memories of the port […]

Editor’s Note: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novel was created from a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950. It was heady stuff. I found them in a box of science fiction magazines at rummage sale at the Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit where pastor Bob […]