50,000 Views!
This website reached 50,000 views today. I’m aware this doesn’t mean there have been that many actual “visitors.” That number is closer to 5000 for 2020 alone. Those who…
Category: Writing
Wisdom for Writers
“It is not easy to write in a journal what interests us at any time, because to write it is not what interests us.” ~Henry David Thoreau, “A Week” (1849)…
The Big Offering Plate
Precisely because I’m a secular American, I am a strong supporter of Religious Liberty/Freedom of Religion. So when there is abuse of that freedom, or denial of that liberty, to…
Religion and Politics
A volatile mix! Yet, maybe a natural, even necessary one? The draft of a short essay I’ve been writing. Sure, it’s a long post, but I’m guessing you may have…
Join Me in the Joy of Writing
These are hard times for huge numbers of people across the world, and across the street. Physically, emotionally, financially, we’re feeling the pinch. Poorer, weaker and less powerful folks are…
A Congregation of Feathers
The Life of Nature presses on, as we earthbound bipeds struggle with disease, death and what tomorrow may bring … Reflections from a Congregation of Feathers In “The Ways of…
In Fearful Times. . .
I wrote this for my weekly column, but decided to post it here for, perhaps, wider reading. Fear, Faith and Freethinking I was relating a story to some friends about camping…
New Religion of Fred?
Fresh off the press: my new column on a new religion for the new year … A New Religion in the Neighborhood? (page two)
