Month: October 2024

4:00 AM. Deep sleep. BWAH! BWAH! BWAH! BWAH! Alarms are ringing. I’m suddenly awake along with everyone else in the hotel. Guests wearing pajamas and slippers drift down halls, through the lobby, and into the parking lot. Sleepy-eyed parents hug their young and try to reassure them. Fire trucks arrive, adding a festive, red-light show…

I dream of a world committed to the truth. No, that’s a lie. A world like that would mean that I would have to tell the truth and ever since Adam and Eve we humans have been addicted to lies. “The serpent tricked me.” “Eve made me do it.” “It’s your fault, God. You’re the…

I survived Hurricane Milton! What was predicted to be a category 3 storm when it passed over my house turned out to be only a category 1. The strong winds left a mess in my yard, but my home never lost power and it was not damaged. This was not true for everyone, as many…

Power. Everybody needs it, everybody wants it. Politicians are obsessed with it, egoistic heads are filled with it, and the oppressed long to overturn it. As Hurricane Helene stormed onto the Florida coast, marched across Georgia, and tore through the Carolinas, its power destroyed all other powers. Jet engines with over 20,000 pounds of thrust…