A postcard mailed to me by a friend initiates a journey into machines, killing, and fascists.
All in Old Books
Queerly Told Tales
Fractured fairytales and other amusingly, shockingly distorted retellings. Just the right amount of cheekiness, creepiness, and clever insight about oral tradition.
Invisible Properties
Arthur Danto helps me re-appreciate, if not re-capture, some of the nativity’s numinous joy.
Holiday Greetings! (of the pagan sort)
My good friend Susan Meier creates beautiful, one-of-a kind cards for the holidays.
To Do List for Nirvana
For today, overcome the following delusions:
Research Rapture
“The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one…"
How to Summon an Angel
“A blazing star will descend … “
Troy's Fallen Star
During the remote Bronze Age some 3500 years ago, a great and terrible war raged over the ownership of a trophy wife.
Oral Traditions in a Virtual-Reality World
We retell the best stories, the ones that resonate, that teach how to be human.
Demon Spies Come in from the Cold
King Solomon reveals secrets of Heavenly Espionage in his Testament.
Joy Conjoined to Stillness
Here lies Nzuzu, a fossilized water spirit, her petrified essence discovered inside green serpentine stone.
Celestial Gifts for a Book-Lover
Good things can and do happen to good people.
Summer Yardwork
Here I am among the trees behind my house, battling grapevine that wants to swallow my wooded suburban lot.