So what have I learned?

A little while ago, I decided to change the pace of my blog. Instead of posting short vignettes about the world, I thought I'd try something different. After all, I have thoughts and opinions and that's what a blog is for, right? So I decided to branch out and try some new things, like some...

Why the Catholic Church Can’t Change

Before I start, let me be clear. I am not a theologian on the Catholic or any religion. I have no formal authority. I am not an expert or claim to have any inside knowledge on the Catholic church. I am just a layman giving my opinion as I see it from my simple nobody...

Times are especially hard for fiction writers!

I feel bad for the fiction writers. I mean, how can they keep coming up with new stories when all their source material is being taken away. For example, there used to be so many political thriller stories about a fictional President of the United States who was devious and corrupt or how the government...

Will we still be here when they come back?

The world has changed. And yet. Nothing has changed. Not long ago, the government declassified the records on what the Air Force found during their decades-long investigation into UFO's. After years of denials, dumbfounded explanations and flat-out lies, they finally came clean and admitted some of the sightings are truly unexplained. No longer are they...

Escape

We all need to escape sometimes. And I’m not talking about retreating to some tropical resort to get away from life for a week or two. Nor am I talking about immersing into a book, a movie or TV to experience someone else’s drama for  while. I’m talking about escaping from the world of reality...

What if we are the aliens?

We’ve all seen pictures of aliens from outer space. I’m not talking about the ones in movies depicted as monsters hell-bent on killing us or taking over the world like “Predator”, “Alien”, “Independence Day” and so on. I’m not even talking about the nice aliens like “E.T.” or “Superman”. I’m talking about real aliens sketched...

The Write Advice Or Not? The Goal Of Being Online

I was reading an article the other day on how to improve your online presence and this one sentence stuck out to me: “The goal of an online presence is to become a specific source of content that readers return to time and again”. On the surface, it sounds obvious. Create what readers want, then...

Loser

Write a one-paragraph story using this prompt: Loser [This is more an essay than a story] There is no such thing as being a loser. It’s a made up thing like a unicorn or Atlantis. Now, losing itself is not a bad thing. Everyone loses sometimes. It is a fact of life - although I...