I'm going to take time out from working on the book and professional obligations to say something that does not come out of any sense o...

So today I began taking dulcimer lessons. How it came to be that I'm learning to play dulcimer, is a long story. But I think that I...

Dear God: Are You hearing me? Do You care at all about us, about any of us? I think about people who believe in You worldwide, who are...

From the very beginning of its fourth season this past October, The Walking Dead has been sitting unplayed on my DVR, taking up a sizable a...

The last time I saw a movie called Godzilla on a big screen it was 1998, the evening before its official release date.  Two hours later I...

The Knight Shift wishes George Lucas all the best - and a lot of appreciation - on this, the occasion of his 70th birthday!

I need to write more. Let me restate that.  I need to write more here , on this blog.  Because if I write more here, maybe it will help me a...

Am now at the start of my third week on lithium carbonate, better known in the common vernacular as plain old "lithium". Lithium...

Forget not in the light what has been learned in the darkness.

Started lithium yesterday. Have never been on lithium before. Had I been on it 15 years ago my life would have turned out completely differ...

I still don't know what I'm supposed to be writing lately. But I feel like I need to post something more than the running train of...

Years ago, as a student at Elon, I became... well, I still don't know the best word for it. "Active", "associated",...

Dear readers of this blog, Two nights ago I very nearly made the greatest mistake of my life. Had it succeeded, another mistake, which I tak...

Why are people so cruel and spiteful to each other? Why do people who have better minds than mine choose to be like that? The love of mo...

Vladimir Putin may have come from the KGB.  But there arguably exists aspirations which are far away and removed from anything the Soviet Un...

Note:  This blog hasn't been the same lately.  I don't know if I should keep going or not.  What do you think? The night before....