Captian's Log Foundations 8 Jan 2019 Okay, so a bit of personal history to set the stage. An obstinate child, I refused to learn how to read. Why? Lord knows. It was my will against my…
Captian's Log Apologies 3 Jan 2019 Preparing for bed, I was gripped by a sudden panic, realizing I hadn’t put together a post for tonight. Scrambling, I cannot think of anything to write on such short…
Captian's Log 2018: Christmas Eve 24 Dec 2018 The night draws fast this Christmas Eve, and I pop onto my blog to wish you all a very merry Christmas. Tonight and tomorrow we celebrate the babe laying in…
Captian's Log Hypocrisy, Faith, Memes, and Language 21 Dec 201821 Dec 2018 Well, the man told me to write about hypocrisy. It seemed important to him as he repeated the idea throughout our conversation today. I had mentioned how I like to…
Captian's Log Flying Cars 14 Dec 2018 Driving around today, I saw a car leap into the air. It happened right in front of me. It was a dark and stormy night, visibility low, and the driver…
Captian's Log Death 8 Dec 20188 Dec 2018 My Rant: You do not get to judge the value of life. There is little which gets under my skin as much as this infectious hatred, this insidious scoffing, this…
Captian's Log Life in the Sky 7 Dec 2018 The city of the Dead was a sprawling affair. Unplanned, the buildings cropped up in a wonderfully organic way, like swollen growths, giant black blotches, against the soft twilight landscape.…
Captian's Log Sonnet: No Hope 27 Nov 2018 Please read: No Hope So, I need a root canal. Fun. Anyway, the poetry of the situation hit me between bursts of intense pain that my tooth is dying, and once…
Captian's Log Short Story: Bring It Back 11 Nov 2018 Please read: Bring It Back Excerpt: What was this noise within me I could not avoid? Was not there some distraction from this fruitless yearning? Why did everything lead back to…
Captian's Log Poem: Bluebird’s Echo 10 Nov 2018 No one can make the bluebird sing from other than its feathered breast, nor make the dreamer dream a dream say that it is his sleeping rest. Yet when to…