My stream of thought is immense. It’s a vast flowing river. It has many tributaries, bringing with them knowledge from the Far Reaches. It is slow moving, but ever changing.  It meanders to and fro, always searching for new sources, always threatening to burst its banks. My river of thought is warm and inviting, clear [...]

The problem with star gazing is you can only do it half of the time. You stay up all night, sleep all day, rinse and repeat, but what about all the stuff that’s going on in the Universe while that damn sun is shining in your eyes? What you need is a way to ogle [...]

Recently I was forced to put somebody on Level 1 Timeout, but to my dismay she did not know what that was.  I actually had to explain the nuances of the Timeout Level System. I decided then and there to explicate the different levels of Timeout, in Fish Bowl format, in the hope that this [...]

I once tried to forget the number 13.  I would consciously skip it every time I counted anything in the hopes that it would eventually drop from my consciousness.  I was trying to train my mind to forget something that has always been, but I couldn’t do it in the end.  It’s hard to forget [...]

The reason I don’t like tandem bikes or kayaks, or any other tandem style sporting apparati, is that they are conceptually fallacious.  On the surface they seem cute and romantic, but it’s a farce.  At first glance you might think, “That’s nice, they’re working together as a team to achieve a common goal”, but what [...]