Captian's Log Reflections on a Dream 21 Nov 202213 Nov 2025 And the snake, a-slitherin in the dark, bewept his form. Why criest thou, o snake? And from the serpent's coils came a human voice: Why knowest not that I was…
Captian's Log …And Vampires 14 Oct 2022 Why do I love vampires? Is it just that I read Dracula when I was young and impressionable? Well, that love, however it began, has not ended there: a few…
Captian's Log But What Do You Fear? 3 Mar 2021 I have traveled far and wide. I have seen princes of noble birth, and self-styled kings—bandit lords. I have seen a brother kill a brother, and that second brother, the…
Captian's Log Reflections on the Book of Habakkuk 27 Feb 20211 Mar 2021 The book of Habakkuk starts strangely; it starts with a question: "How long?" The prophet agonizes. The questions seem all too familiar in our secular age: God does not listen,…
Captian's Log I Am Not a Rationalist 8 Jan 2021 I am not a rationalist, and what I mean is that I do not believe there are answers to everything. I think, at bottom, at the deepest level of reality,…
Captian's Log Dialogue: Why? 8 Oct 2020 "I don't know how it came to this. There's trash all around us. That's a dumpster. We're hiding in an alleyway." "You asked a question." "It was just a question."…
Captian's Log Drabble: Longing to Dream 3 Sep 2020 They fill the earth with noise, not music, and there is no reprieve, no silent moment, no place for reflection and thought—there is no time to dream. But I have…
Captian's Log Poem: Identity 11 Jan 2020 What can a man become? How can he stand the tide? O sands of passing years, Are we but dying dust? Must life, so brief, end now? I search, but…
Captian's Log Ravings 8 Sep 2019 What shudders envelope my frame! Yet what have I to fear of questions? I’m to die on the marrow. The king’s tax is heavier on me this year, his law…
Captian's Log The Worth of a Man 8 Jun 2019 Considering worth, there seems to be two types: There is a worth of things regarding use, that is, a tool’s usefulness and worth are the same, and there is a…
