• Thoughts

    What Do You Stand For?

    As I near the end of The Rape of the Mind, I look at the world I live in and think back over the past three years—and even over the last century—and I feel gratitude for the people in the…

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    Let It Be an End in Itself

    Do you ever feel like you belong nowhere? I’m going through such an experience now, feeling sort of homeless. I keep telling myself to unpack my bags and settle, that I can stay here, that I can be happy here,…

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    A Speck of Light

    I still look at my old stuff, hoping to find a glittering speck that lights the way to something new. This morning, I pulled out the second post from Collecting Thoughts Press and remembered that I once wrote about a…

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    And Again

    “Learn to run roughshod over the obstacles in your head” are the first words I posted at a new site I created long ago in the hopes of finally finding the right venue for my words. The domain I purchased…