Whose Reality is This?

Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education "Why should a profession that trades in ...

My ex-partner and I had an ongoing argument on university-based scientific research. He adamantly opposed publicly-funded research. His stan...

Due to an accident and injury, the last two days of this Challenge were postponed. Music is language. Not necessarily in word, but in tone...

The letter 'x' is rather lonely. Compared to other letters of the alphabet, not many words begin with this letter. My first associ...

"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates "...

Americans have their common generic name, 'Smith'. Germans have their common name, 'Volk'. I can always recognize upon intro...

Roughly 96 miles from where I live is a small remote community called Marfa (Texas). Although the town is mostly known for its density of ar...

Edward Abbey once wrote about the human propensity to ascribe everything with a name: “Unless we can name things, they remain for us only...

Today is Earth Day. It should be every day. It is also 'S' day. So here is my Statement for today. I pledge allegiance to the Ea...

"Quack, quack!", said the Quark. He thought he was a duck. The neighboring Loon looked over and said, "Oh, hum. How element...

Here in the desert some of us can smell rain even before it falls to the ground around our feet. Yet when the precious blood of life hits th...

In case new readers haven't caught on yet, I have an odd and inexplicable curiosity of names. (My favorite subject is toponyms, but that...

What is a name? What is 'in' a name? It's a Human thing :) Lizard walked ungracefully into the café front room carrying a c...

What is a meme? What is a message? What is a gene? What is the basic denominator of life? If you consider on a broad scale, information is...

One door closes and another opens. Deja vu from 18 years ago.  "Life is a strange thing Just when you think you learnt how to us...

Karma is the mad hatter of a hater's world. – Amy Wynne Whatley Now as a man is like this or like that, according as he acts and acc...

A mysterious small and elusive wild cat A small wild cat, not much larger than the average house cat, the jaguarundi eludes us humans in ...

"A healthy woman is much like a wolf - strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive and loyal. Yet separation from h...

How many times have you asked yourself, "Why am I doing this?", "What am I doing?", "Am I on the right path?" ...

To attack the 'government' per se and blame it for all our ills is like sticking a Band-aid on a giant festering abscess.  - Yours ...