Artemisia

A thumbnail sketch of the noble game of Chess from Gupta to a Deeper Blue.

Unwrapping Christmas past. Featuring: "A Child’s Christmas In Wales" by Dylan Thomas.

Being a quarter Viking via my Swedish grandfather, Erik, I have always had a deep interest in the lore of the Scandinavians.

A tribute to poetry, a most human art and a long time love of mine. With links to the audio version of my earlier poems.

How I learned to bridge the inter-generational empathy gap between co-workers in a variety of employment scenarios using Bobcat Logic.

An essay inspired by Pythagoras and the number three.

A little talk about aging and dentistry in the North Shore Mountains and how my wisdom tooth came to rest on Crown Mtn.

History, by necessity, contains many of the devices of fiction; just as fiction cannot help but to include large doses of actual history.

Fruits and vegetables, late-night TV, marketing 101 and the archaeology of food porn.

About the dual unmasking of the underlying temerity of women and the underlying timorousness of men.

A Mediterranean lady helps me uproot a childhood fear.

The benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.

A talk about suicide.

A look at a real Louisiana Man and what he accomplished with common sense, decency and personal fortitude.

Pondering 100 million year old fish, the “Great Inbetweenium”, Chinese graveyards, the Rivers Fraser and Meander and the tedium of luxury.

On 'twirling sunwise' and a magical Nepalese widdershins bear. A hop farm worker looks at etymology.

Examining the parallax of progress through the generationally distorted lens of history.

The question of why multitudes submit to doomed systems designed to benefit few, has yet to be conclusively answered.