That’s what it feels like inside my head just about every time I sit down to write. So I should be the stereotypical melancholy writer. And since half my family is Irish I should be the stereotypical melancholy DRUNK writer. Quite the opposite. I’m really glad I learned how to write. To be totally accurate [...]
“But I would not give in. That was the secret ingredient. I would not be a wage slave. I would not take ‘no’ for an answer. I would not give in. I was going to be rich. Some how. Some way. Some day soon. And I would not retreat to the safety of a decent [...]
There’s a small town in Pennsylvania called Roseto. Many years ago, this tiny town was entirely populated with immigrants from the same area of Italy. Not just the people. Their entire culture had been transplanted there. The entire town had a very cohesive sense of community. Here’s an interesting little factoid: Roseto had an amazing [...]
A rhesus monkey was put into a special cage. This cage had red, yellow and green squares. He seemed to pay little, if any, attention to the colored squares. He just lived his life doing monkey things. After several days, an “experimenter” made the red squares start giving off intermittent shocks. BTW, I put the [...]
We weren’t taught to think creatively. Well, at least I know I wasn’t. Nor was anybody else who attended the Barberton, Ohio public school system during the same 13 years I was forced to attend. Instead of teaching us how to create our own things, we were only taught how to observe what someone ELSE [...]