42, the famous answer offered by the brilliant writer, Douglas Adams, in his book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, to the question what is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything, may be slightly incorrect. What’s this, you…

On this first morning of my 365-day-long 62nd orbit of the sun, I took stock of life.  Where I’ve been, where I am, and where I am heading. From the time of my birth, I’ve traveled 556,625,000 miles on this…

The following is a short story (albeit a bit longer than the last one) written for a collection of short stories. A bit of an indulgence on my part, I admit, but I hope you will take the time to read it and…

Our brains are wired to seek the why in everything. We are engineered by evolution to look for a cause and a reason. Absent one or the other, or both, we create them. It is one of the precursors of…