Will We Ever Go Beyond the Stars and Should We?
Whenever I return to the prospect of revisiting my earlier fictional works, I ask myself if that’s necessary or even wise. So much of my fiction is based on interstellar conflicts and I realize now that we don’t need any more of those types of stories. The more relevant stories are closer to home and […]
What Was Your Biggest Sliding Door Moment?
One newsletter I once read talked about “sliding door moments.” (That newsletter now requires a paid subscription to read, so I’ve killed any reference to the original link.) This a reference to a 1998 movie with a young, gorgeous Gwyneth Paltrow called Sliding Doors. In that film, Paltrow’s character has two divergent encounters with a […]
Let’s Analyze Emily Dickinson’s Poem #632
What does Emily Dickinson mean when she writes, “the brain is wider than the sky”? Emily Dickinson’s Poem #632 seems to revolve around the human mind as its theme. The first stanza, after which the poem is commonly titled, is what instantly drew my eyes to this poem. “The Brain – is wider than the […]
George Gamow and Clever Way of Presenting the Atom
I wrote these few thoughts about the portrayal of exploring the atom in a work of legendary Russian-American physicist George Gamow’s that I came across in high school (2003 or 2004). They are pretty high level observations for the time… “On George Gamow’s Clever Way of Presenting the Atom” While personally I knew of the […]
What Has the Media Done to Our Self Image
Digging through my writing archives, I came across this little piece that was left not dated. I’m assuming it was written sometime during my junior year of high school (2003) because it’s in the “journal” format we had for homework. Ordinarily, these would be fairly trite, but I want to preserve this one in particular. […]
Clean Slate
I’ve spent the past several weeks trying to figure out where I’m going with my writing. I’ve wiped the slate clean a few times over the past couple of years in regards to my online posting. I finally have come to the conclusion that I need to simply be more forthcoming and raw with my […]
Walking in a Wintercore Wonderland
In today’s frolic through the fantastic, we’re bundling up and stepping out into a whimsical world, one blanketed in the soft, serene beauty of winter. Yes, dear readers, for today’s fanciful journey, we’ll merrily skate across the frozen pond of aesthetics. Our destination is a wintercore wonderland, where each breath of chilly air crystallizes into […]
An Analysis of the Poem “Birches” by Robert Frost
One of my all-time favorite poems is “Birches” by Robert Frost. Perhaps, my affection for the work has much to do with having to do an in-depth analysis of the poem for a senior English assignment. After revisiting this academic piece years later, I decided to post it in a somewhat revised form on my […]
A Photographic History of the Brooks Bluff Cottages of Downeast Maine
In 2007, I was one of the last people ever to stay at the Brooks Bluff Cottages in Robbinston, Maine. While planning a short trip to Maine, I naturally looked up where I used to stay, knowing full well that the 20-plus acre property was mostly unused for nearly a decade before it eventually sold. […]