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Here we go again. The subject is ethics this time.  I don't particularly like ho…

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. What is truth? How do we know? Important and difficult questions that will be debated as long as there are humans with the ability to debat…

Winning is often the end of an endeavor, but not always. In politics winning should not be an end in itself, only a step. It is the beginning of the true struggle for which the ent…

I did an Ancestry DNA test a few years ago and ended up finding an older sister a few states over. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmNqSrEd5TKDBCVCa9EjqUH3EEdQv7WhU98ZrAKC…

Philosophy applies to life. And life adds perspective to philosophy. Often these two things end up disconnected. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmW38oC4CgfGp4ukkfEaY6ctYt…

I have two essays on logic to write today. And we're going to see one of the reasons that I don't particularly like academia right away. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQm…

Philosophy is inescapable. It is ignorable, which is what most people do with it. There are parts that I find quite interesting, enjoyable, and useful. Technical logic is not exact…

A few years ago I went looking for a movie list to both inspire and instruct me about writing and being a writer. There are such lists, but there are no good lists. Over the last c…

A few days ago I was watching the movie 'Gabriel's Inferno'. In one scene Julianne is fixing Gabriel's tie in a car. It annoyed me that the rich, sophisticated, intellectual was bo…

This election will change things throughout the United States, and in Dalton Township. Predicting what that change will be is more difficult. In Dalton there are three possible dir…

Authoritarian governments have a tendency to limit or even collapse the food supply. At first that doesn't appear to make sense. People get angry and desperate when the food supply…

There are certain situations that approach the limit of what it is possible for us to experience as human beings. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmf2jh23KnJu5SR56B8e1gAy…

The stories we consume affect how we view everything.  With a nine-year-old …

Transformation is a common theme in literature. Sometimes we transform and then enter a new world, at other times we enter a new world and then transform. Sometimes, it's both. …

Fun, funny, and serious can often go together. One can change to the other in a split second. That happens in life, and sometimes it happens while you're writing. ![image.png](…

I've put some of the stories that Vera and I have written together up on my blog over the last few months. She likes it. You can see that in the ending of this one. ![image.png…

Dialogue is fun. It's the original uniquely human interaction, talking. And, humans love to bestow that gift upon animals in stories. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmd…

Stories are kind of like waking dreams. That's especially true when you get into fantasy. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmWZoWJYaiWnVo4aQoBnDN7D7GHChkE9eV18kUheoRzqif/…

Reading and writing stories is an amazing experience. Experiencing what a kid does when continuing a story idea is often quite surprising. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/…

One of the best parts about teaching is learning. I've had students from a multitude of cultures, different countries, different languages, different religions, different ages, dif…