Category Archives: Fiction

We’ve all enjoyed a hearty dose of doom over the last few years, haven’t we? It’s been so easy to see the possible calamities (both natural and manufactured by humanity’s poor decisions) and fall to the ground with hopelessness. Wildfires! Pandemics! Culture war strife! Actual war! Sinking fertility rates! Rising global temperatures! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Did youContinue reading “Me? A techno-optimist???”

Ah, the municipal campaign season is nearing its end. And soon, the flock of sign grouses will return to their roosts and hibernate until the next campaign begins. You can identify the sign grouse by their grumbling complaints about the existence of campaign signs. To them, evidently, there is no greater blight on the urbanContinue reading “Election signs are important”

As I get older, I learn that the old cliché rules of social etiquette are actually pretty valid. The first one I came to accept is “don’t discuss religion or politics in polite company”. (I’ll go into why that’s a good rule in a later post.) And with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II lastContinue reading “A little compassion for the grieving”