All we have is the past. Dementia. I wake it up, I cook its meals, I put on its bib, I zip its zippers, tug on its shoes, adjust its...

Inventing the Sci-Fi genre at age 18 required a radical upbringing. This all started because my sister bought me a stunning, green and...

A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...

OMG, they were tomb-mates I’m going to rip the bandaid off real quick here by letting all my gaybies know that there is significant (as...

And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...

And why it matters in the age of anti-abortion, nuclear threats, and civil rights As long as I’ve been alive, my family’s told the same...

Please allow me to update you on "My Incredible Success" I made $613.11 in my first consistent month as a paid contributor due to two...

The trickster archetype narrator and how to utilize it. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also...

A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....

Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...

The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...

Why time flies when society comes undone. This pandemic is shaking us to our foundations. It’s literally forcing us to reconsider both...

What a princess, a knight, and an evil dragon can teach us about Covid-19. We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of...

The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...

What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...

Check in with your audience and avoid shouting into the void. According to a study by Microsoft, humans now have an attention span of...

How to coax your creativity out when it wants to crawl inside a hole. So, my “Top Humor Writer” status has gone away since I started...

You’ve got some old beliefs and thought patterns that need shifting. I recently wrote that I’d decided to read all 72 books from a...

Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...

Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance...