Advertisements

When Worlds Collide

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

In spite of what you may have heard, I am not a genius, nor have I ever claimed to be (at least not since I was 17 and some young winner of the Nordic Combined was batting her eyelashes at me).  I am not a physicist.  I [...]

Stranger in a Strange Land

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

When I was a child, racial tension in my small hometown did not exist.  There was no them, only us.  Everybody was white.  The caste system was in effect, to be sure, from the apex of the Caucasian ladder to the depths of the pale trash heap; [...]

Compassion

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

I’m sure many if not even most of you out there lay awake nights wondering why I choose to spend the vast majority of my time sequestered away from civilization in the company only of Digger the outstanding dog, Clancy the incredible dog, Grizz the irritating cat, [...]

Silverthorn

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

He was about 6 and a half feet tall, weighed maybe 280 pounds, and had straight, blue-black hair to below his waist.  He looked down at me through hard, dark-brown eyes from a walnut face and said, “You’re white.  Where’d you get that necklace?”  He was referring [...]