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November 12, 2025

The Truth About Ruins

Seeing a building in ruins gives me the blues. From 1989 until 1991, I lived off and on in England and saw many ruins. When I started writing full-time in 2002, I wrote a short story about it, titled "The Truth About Ruins". The narrator remembers his honeymoon, when he toured England with his new bride and visited several ancient ruins. The scant information on their original appearance frustrated him. He can't see the purpose of leaving them in a ruinous state.

November 09, 2025

The Recent Mass Shootings

There has been a spate of mass shootings lately, mostly involving Black juveniles and young adults in party settings. After a few hours of revelry and boozing, one boy turns on another, and they start fighting. Other boys take sides and join the fray, until someone pulls out a gun and sprays the area around him—usually the loser in the fray using a gun to settle scores. Well-off adults digest these events with dispirited calm. Harnessed to their routines of marriage, a regular job, and social networks, they forget the impulsiveness, temperamental angst, and romantic rivalries of youth. Harmless sassing can lead so easily to a fist-fight, and from there to the violence of a mob mentality, where nobody is safe.

November 06, 2025

The Importance of Hanukkah

At sundown on December 14th, the Jewish holiday Hanukkah will begin and last for eight nights. For all its festiveness, it is a solemn holiday in Judaism that celebrates the Maccabean Revolt, and the reconsecration of the Temple at Jerusalem. Orthodox and Catholic Bibles recount the Revolt in the Book of Maccabees.

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