This message nearly went unwritten, for I was already waving the white flag. Our tradition of greeting each new year with glimmers of light was under a heavy strain. We couldn’t see them. The world cloaked itself in black robes, heavy with deep folds, from which no fresh breeze could stir. And the American [...]

letting go the latest trend a fool I seem to be when these two hollow words do not adorn my chatter box busy busy busy used to fit me better but now seems out of date goals more fleeting than acetone constantly prove of yesterday unless they are golden coins I alone am pulling the [...]

We humans have landed in a colossal storm due to outdated navigation. Even though we saw bad weather coming we never expected it to be a storm like this. And now we find ourselves in the midst of it. The ship on which we sail creaks eerily and is thrown back and forth wildly. [...]