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Several months ago I read a story, probably on the Yahoo news, about a planet that doesn’t orbit any sun.  It’s just out there, moving through the darkness of outer space […]

Two terms about people in North America, one coined recently and one that’s been around for a while, have caught my eye and ear over the years and I’ve come […]

This blog post may be a little different from the ones I usually write.  Mostly I write about science or writing or the environment.  This time I want to get […]

About a month and a half ago I finished reading the Star Wars book, Kenobi, by John Jackson Miller.  This book, part of the long-running Star Wars saga, tells the story […]

Writing is a form of daydreaming.  Actually, I like to daydream.  I could spend my whole life thinking up and thinking about stories, fictional as well as non-fictional.  Of course, […]

Astronomers like to project.  Now that sky studies have demonstrated that many other stars out there in our galaxy have planets orbiting around them, the race is on to find […]

If you’ve read much fiction, (or even written some of it), you may have noticed a common thread among all those stories.  If there is any sort of crime committed, usually […]

If you watch TV or movies at all, even just a little bit, you’ve almost certainly come across an acting cliché that has bothered me for almost as long as […]

On December 30, 2012, I wrote a posting on this blog about a merging of two words to form a weird or unusual combination, a mixture that isn’t present in […]

If you could be a character in a novel or TV show or movie, what book or show would you pick? In this case, I’m suggesting that you insert yourself into […]

Perhaps you’ve heard, out in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between the US and Japan is a large accumulation of plastic items from all over the world.  From Asia as well […]

Actually, the heading of this post is a little misleading because I got my flu shot about two weeks ago, but it makes a catchy title.  But it does reflect […]