by admin | Jul 30, 2019 | Death, Fiction, Sin, Star Trek, Suicide, Supernatural
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits, necessary to sustain life. But...
by admin | Jun 14, 2019 | Death, Dogs, Essay, Eulogy, Nonfiction
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly… Macbeth Macbeth was a villain, but he was right about that… We’d known it was coming for months. She was getting weaker all the time. She was just plain old. There was...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Death, Fiction, Loss, Supernatural
Clara was not quite 5 that day in 1954 while she sat in her bedroom playing with her doll. The sun was shining happily through her windows, and she was singing to herself about a very small spider and a water spout. At first, she was oblivious to the yelling outside....
by admin | May 21, 2019 | Death, Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Star Trek
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 Yesterday, not for anything close to the first time, I should have died. I woke up to find a strange woman standing over me while I was lying in bed. She...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Death, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy
I don’t fear Death. To be clear, I make no claims to being a brave man. I don’t believe I am. I have a deep fear of pain, and people scare the hell out of me. But Death… not so much. I don’t believe this means there’s anything wrong with...
