I Am The Cosmos

I Am The Cosmos

(I’ll begin with an apology due to my having caught a rather nasty head cold this post is coming a week later than I’d anticipated.) I’d like to use this space to make a nod to the past. On February 21, 1992, Chris Bell’s album, I Am The Cosmos...
WWTDD?

WWTDD?

I’ve long held that the most quotable movie in history is The Big Lebowski, which, if you’re creative enough, has a line for every imaginable situation in life (and isn’t being creative enough really the point, and the challenge, and ultimately, the...
On: The Me-Of-Now

On: The Me-Of-Now

I received an email from a friend the other day who had kindly taken the time to read my second story, The Me-Of-Now. He asked a fairly common question, How did you come up with this idea? Without getting lost in my friend’s question (because the true but...
Billy Shears

Billy Shears

Twenty years ago my parents purchased me a CD player for Christmas. It was a rectangular plastic black box that housed a single CD, played analog tapes as well as recorded CD’s to tape, tuned-in the radio, and was portable—what at the time some called a...
TCB

TCB

On this day in 1935 in the tiny town of Tupelo, Mississippi, a King was born. That’s right: today marks the 78th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley. God bless us all, everyone! There’s hasn’t been one like him since and there probably never...
Book List

Book List

The other day I wrote a piece about taking pleasure in reading. As a follow-up, below is a list of some of the things I’ve read over the past couple months. My criteria in making it were twofold: that the pieces be fiction and also be things that I enjoyed....