Murder, or not
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. • Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 17th century [...]
The weapon of weapons
The greatest destructive force humankind ever invented, by an order of magnitude much greater than hydrogen bombs, is religion. Since [...]
Revisiting the boy
In 1975, before my 18th birthday and well before my university debut, I somehow accumulated enough money to buy a [...]
Behind a name
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing. Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and [...]
Life or death?
The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you [...]
Death experience
Death and I are old companions. • Starship Captain, Star Trek, “Balance of Terror” As I approach the twentieth anniversary [...]
In deep winter
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. • Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright [...]
A traveler’s advice
I have celebrated Christmas in seven states and seven countries. Sadly, my family is now gone, wife and child, a [...]
Back to normal
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. • Albert Einstein I have gone from washing [...]
Solitude in Mustang
Up on the roof of the world, people's priorities are different and humanity is saner.
Solace in a sea of tranquility
Unlike the ever-anxious West resonant peace pervades Nepal, writes columnist Henry Bennett, who sought a refuge from the headline-news storm and found it.
Acreage and apocalypse (Hawaiian reflections 2)
What with the looming climate catastrophe, the American Republican Party now becoming the Fascist Party, COVID waves one, two, three, [...]