Last night Tammy , my miniature dachshund, got on the sofa.  And she brought along one of her Christmas toys: a plush dachshund toy, which c...

The realization hit me this morning that today is the twelfth anniversary of Mom's passing.   I've written about her before, here.  ...

To be honest, I don't know if I should do this.  It seems like it would be more ideal to bring this back during a better Christmas. But ...

Today is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the  Outer Banks of North Carolina. ...

Many years ago an idea hit for a Godzilla movie.  There are strong doubts that I'll ever get to make it but the notion still occupies my...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...

It was my friend Matt Smith who first encouraged me to start a weekly video series  like his own Sunday school videos .  He suggested some e...

Work with me here.  This is something that popped into being inside my gray matter a few weeks ago.  Personally, I can't find any argume...

So, this past week a memory just popped into mind.  About something I had written a long time ago as a student at Elon.  Awhile back I disco...

  The Gods of the Copybook Headings Rudyard Kipling 1919 ~ As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostra...

"Doctor... I let you go." ~ final words of the Twelfth Doctor     Oh dear Lord.  It was so much worse than I was ready for. I keep...

I wish that I could tell you, faithful readers (all two of you) that my spiritual life is one that has been a beautiful one.  A life that ha...

The Doctor - the titular hero of the long-running BBC series Doctor Who - has had many, many enemies in his sixty years of saving the univ...

It was 1983, forty whole years ago.  At the White House.  "Santa Claus" came that year in the form of Mr. T .  Here he is with bel...

Dear Mr. Davies, Greetings good sir!  I know this is a very exciting time for you, so I thank you for taking the time (I hope) to read this ...

 ...and, well, I'm stoked  about this movie.  It looks like it could be even better than Ghostbuster: Afterlife .  And I loved that movi...

Yowza!!   And I've thought that many times over the past several years or so, in regard to the memory of Marvin "Popcorn" Sut...