It might be too little, too late. — Some of their golden boys have already advocated for a limited exodus to Mars — so they can escape our dying Earth. As if an empty, alien world could ever hold the spark of life better than the planet they raped and pillaged to amass their wealth. In case you…

Hungry and alone, he thought he was forgotten. But he wasn’t… — I don’t mind the darkness but the last few nights the air echoed with strange sounds. Sirens screamed down empty streets. Loud bangs split the air like thunder but from inside the houses. Screaming. People crying. Children bawling, begging for their mamas and papas... I didn’t see the man that…

All you need is time and the right software. — What are you interested in? No really — what gets your juices flowing and your attention going? For me it’s climate change, tech, scifi, gardening and the mysteries of the mind/body. I’ll read the heck out of anything that falls into those categories. But this immediately presents a challenge. In…

We won’t stop breaking the biosphere. — Imagine for a moment there’s a wet bulb incident in your city. It’s hot. Hotter than you’ve ever felt. You can’t stand being outside for too long. The air is muggy and it’s hard to breathe. You just had to bring in the dog, Daisy’s been panting too fast and…

Some things you need to know. — We’re heading into a near future that will be riven with the effects of climate change. At 1.5°C, 70% of the coral reefs die. The food webs in the ocean collapse. Storms rage overland even as the seas become dead zones. We’re not going to stop climate change. You should…

So you really want to know. Lol. Okay then. — ONE: What is something you LOVE about yourself? Okay, this is difficult for me. I don’t think about myself as anything more than the guy next door so there’s things I like about myself — I like playing the guitar for example or learning new things. …

Or are we simply ungrateful? — Somewhere in my comments section this past week, I was advised to be grateful. I was told we all live like Kings and that if I’d lived 100 years ago, I’d probably be someone’s slave. I mean, ouch. Major burn. I actually am from a former English colony and my…

A closer look at my winter staycation in Mountain Country USA — As much as I understand the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I’ve always itched to go out West. Walk the Grand Canyon, maybe visit a native Indian reservation. The lure of American mythology is a powerful thing. I wanted to experience what it might have felt like…

Bad things can happen — In keeping with tonight being the scariest night of the year, I thought I’d share a true life experience I had as a teenager reading William Peter Blatty’s excellent literary masterpiece: The Exorcist. It was later than I’d read most nights. That’s what happens when you get caught up in…