by aaron | Oct 22, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
William Miller was a clergyman from Massachusetts who was certain Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Your reading this now says enough about that theory. This was not the first time Miller predicted Jesus’ return. In 1822 Miller postulated that Jesus would...
by aaron | Aug 4, 2025 | blog, Essays, Uncategorized
Billy Beane is a former baseball player whose career most people zip past for the simple fact that it was pretty average. But I find the fact that he played major league baseball for six years pretty awesome! Seriously—it’s amazing when anyone gets to the...
by aaron | Jun 16, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
No Kings is an objectively silly name. Outside of very specific revolutionary situations it sounds goofy, a name for a porn production company or a casino slot machine. Googling either option makes me nervous, so instead I’ll talk about the recent No Kings protests,...
by aaron | Jun 9, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
I am fortunate to live surrounded by trees. As trees make good homes for birds, I am also surrounded by birds. I do not believe this makes me fortunate, for among the many things birds are is noisy. That may sound obvious. After all, it’s a well documented...
by aaron | Jun 6, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
In our last post someone wrote this… Let’s look at that lonely little pronoun, our. First-person pronouns are something we enjoy around here. The We in that previous sentence is one of them. It’s what some people call the Royal We, though I prefer Majestic Plural to...
by aaron | Jun 2, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
Someone in our last post wrote this: It also raises the question of one’s self, and that’s a hornet’s nest we’ll kick another day The human self is an overwhelming reality. I know this because I have one. Or am one? I’m not sure which it is. As you can see,...