For me, reading outside my comfort zone means following wisps of ideas and half-understood references in one topic to others. …
Ideally, we live by a moral or ethical code. I first began questioning the idea of virtue when I saw…
I subscribe to author Rachael Herron’s newsletter and she recently posed the question: What’s your baseline? What’s the bare minimum…
As a child, I could while away an afternoon lying in an open field listening to the sounds of nature…
Cultural appropriation is about ownership of your own culture both individually and as a group. The cultural melting pot trope…
Will believing in something make it effective? Bring it into existence? Empower it? Will forgetting something cause it to fail,…
I remember the first season of the X-Files and an episode set in the general locale where I lived and…
I have two problems with religion: 1. Fundamentalists, extremists, fanatics. 2. Righteous intolerance and exclusion. I’ve been pagan leaning Wiccan…
What if the Garden of Eden is a metaphor for the most basic difference in philosophy – the difference between…
I turned 55 years old on my birthday this past Sunday. I did some revamping and organizing of things and…
