Monthly Archives: September 2021

This is installment #13 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. Being the scribe on the governing … Continue reading →

Author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich wrote, “To make a mess that another person will have to deal with… …is to exert domination.” If we define mess as disorder, and include ‘identify’ alongside ‘make’, then we have an apt descriptor … Continue reading →

With waves crashing against the wharf ___________________________ The Ass and the Elephant went to sea ~In a red white and jive-blue boat, They took some honey, printed plenty of money, ~Wrapped up in a rights-bound note. The Ass looked down … Continue reading →

Money. How can a made up construct, a nonexistent entity, have such sway? So much influence? All this power? It is an entity because it does have a life of its own. And it gives life to pride and shame … Continue reading →