Odin's Ravens

I don’t suppose we require a fresh metaphor for the futility of life, but if we did, the cicadas could certainly provide us with one. Those ...

  His hand-lettered sign said “homless.” I gave him 10 singles and he replied, “Thanks … oh, wow!”  I wished him luck, this tattered, youngi...

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, publi...

As George and I finished our predawn walk this morning, we saw a homeless man wobbling by on a bicycle, burdened by the inevitable backpack,...

Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post today, on Journalism 101— “Chris Quinn, editor of th...

His small paws shiver In swift pursuit of dream things While I watch and smile.