Baylea the Rescue Pup
I wrote this piece a few years ago now for use on my rescue site and took the liberty of writing it from Baylea’s point of view, but the message it conveys is still just…
Year: 2021
A Casual Conversation with a Goddess
What if the moon wants to whisper back to me?The sky is dark and lonely high up thereWhere the goddess sails through an eternally starlit seaIn orbits fixed above earth’s guarded air Perhaps she is…
True Love: Classic Disney vs. Studio Ghibli
I’m just going to come out and say it… I think that, on the whole, Ghibli Studios has a better understanding of true love than classic Disney. Most of the classic Disney movies have this…
Sarah’s Crusade
Sarah pressed her glasses up as she typed away on her holographic keyboard. On the wide 16:9 screen were observations of aliens she’d had to deal with. One was a shapeshifter, another was a reptile…
Plautus and Tarzan
The plays of Plautus all repose in peacenext to my boyhood’s tattered Tarzan books,University classes, and summer days.I suppose Mercury brought his own vines. Kafka is up against Rilke and Parzival;they seem to get along…
The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure – Ch 8
Frank and Joe could not wait until school was over. The two would find themselves often glancing at the clock, impatiently waiting for the clock to reach three. They’d get a few texts from their…
Crossing the Space Between – Chapter 9 – The Lost Children
Fairy Godmother paced back and forth inside her office, one minute wanting to call Yen Sid, the next wanting to call her daughter, and the next not knowing what she wanted to do. “Did you…
True Love Never Fails – Chapter 3
“Well, you are right, the laws of the King specifically say you can only have one wife. You should mention the agreement you made with Rachel's father seven years ago and hold him to it.…
Journey of Discovery Chapter 24 (A Kingdom Hearts Story)
As much as I wanted to leave with my prize, I decided to stay and watch the fight. It had proven to be amusing to watch that moron get his butt handed to him by…
On Reading Thomas Merton: I Didn’t Know a Brow was Involved
To read Thomas Merton, we are scold-told,is middlebrow spirituality. I never knew that a brow was involvedbecause I see the barber every week But I like Father Louis (bourgeois or not)and his brave travelogues of…