Thinking Out Loud

    The marketing masters have always used the same formula: get'm while they're young and you'll have a customer for life.  The same has been applied to mass hypnosis through the animated film industries.  Bright flashing colors…

    The sciences once told me there are four oceans.  Apparently these geographical sciences were incorrect and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decided to add The Southern Ocean.  Did the nature of earth and a…

        One morning, some time ago, David awoke one minute and twenty-three seconds before his digital alarm was scheduled to sound, rolling over to see his wife, Samantha, dressing in front of the vanity mirror.     …

    July 6th, 2022, a day that will not live on in infamy; a day that will likely not live on at all; a day that will most likely be forgotten, yet should not, for upon that day, the first day of the pagan Roman holiday of Ludi Apollinares…

    Coins were once created to overtake the economy of trading and bartering of goods and services.  This gave lending power to a select few and thus empowered them beyond their intrinsic value to the village.  We became one step…

    I remember the man—the myth-seeker turned mythical, himself; to be sought after like the very legend he helped popularize—Kevin Nazareth: the name he abided before the shedding. He established our o so profitable magazine, …

    When a house burns down, leaving nothing behind but smouldering ashes that eventually settle into the dusts that scatter and fertilize the grasses and weeds of tomorrow, did that house ever really exist? It still exists in photographs,…

    According to the National Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children program, 2,300 children go missing every day in the United States. Every 40 seconds, according to F.B.I. statistics, a child goes missing or is ab…

        I had no idea why we were hiding in the attic of Mr. Schmidt’s, my Father’s invidious boss and cause of endless tirades that tainted our every dinner conversation, who now seemed to work for us, providing foo…

    Women's fashion of 100 years ago was extraordinarily different from the fashion of today.  The flapper dress was as risque as it got.  Women wore high-waisted trousers with tailored dresses and large, ornate hats.  The l…