In the military, I learned that size and strength only matter in a fair fight. Your winning percentage is much greater when you avoid...

The saint associated with 'education' is Thomas Aquinas. Our government wants more and more of our money. It seems as if they eat like...

Arrogance is poison to intelligence. Try to be hopeful by finding the upside of down. NIGHTMARE is a word derived from the Old English...

Why isn't the universe warm? There a billions of molten hot suns. I think 'darkness' will remain the primary, dominant force in humans....

How can anyone solve a problem by the process of elimination? I seldom solve anything when sitting on my toilet. Lawyers wear expensive...

Now I lay me down to sleep In a place dark and deep. My last refuge, my Castle Keep. Now gone for good, no one should weep. Saw much,...

Like an onion, layers and layers of lies Behind many people’s beguiling eyes. Their face calm, occupied by a false smile. So easy for...

Me? I’m the Honorable Kid Killian, speaking to a prison psychiatrist. A mental defective. Sorry. I mean a mental detective but still...

“What’s the matter with this apartment? You sure as hell loved it after we got married. It excited you. You had hundreds of ideas for...

I met him at Liam’s Irish Pub. He sat at the bar, but at the end, next to the wall. He was tall so he stood out from the crowd. He...

A fat man goes into a fast-food restaurant and orders his food. The cashier says that it will be a minute or two for his food to arrive....

Once in a while, I feel as if a tsunami is forming at a great distance, getting closer every day, and it’s focused on me. I don’t know...

Everything ends. Family, other relatives, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and you are all temporary. Everything your five senses can...

I was far too young to die. I was murdered. But when you get murdered at the young age of thirty-one, your vengeful spirit goes on living...

The wolf appeared in his dream, To his surprise he did not scream. He thought for sure it was the end, But he glared back, did not bend,...

I woke to a pleasing memory of my grandparents. A memory, not forgotten, but possibly fading. It was as if some internal stimulus was...

Time. Inescapable, yet treasured. Mostly a welcomed pleasure, but often unappreciated. Every LIFE holds the hand of TIME as a child holds...

It’s not true that wood carvers have a chip on their shoulder. Wood carvers may be very boring people or extremely interesting, and they...

She'd been distracted by sudden death. Her mother died last year. Her father's death was less than year later. She was now driving to her...

It was a dark and stormy night … Fuck you Edward Bulwer-Lytton, screw you Madeleine L’Engle, but most of all, piss off, Snoopy. It really...