Another year has past, another Spring is coming to the Northern Hemisphere and fall to the Southern, another Earth Day, and another climate report from the UN released. So the world takes a large sigh of ignorance at yet another report, the deniers make up excuses out of thin air, and most other folks bury their heads in the ground. Still more will point to...
Us praying. Meditating. I get out of bed. It's six in the morning and the sun has not yet risen. The air feels cool and hard to the bone, my body tense and shedding the veils of sleep. He rests, still, his head reclined on a mass of pillows, his mouth slightly ajar, his chest slowly rising and falling. His face, ensconced in sleep, still betrays an innocenc...
Fast forward to 2027, 20 years after George Bush choked to death on a peanut, rumored to have been planted by Jimmy Carter, Laura Bush, by unanimous decree, was drafted as President of the United States. After completing two terms as President, her daughter, Barbara, completed two terms as President, and her twin sister, Jenna, just started her first term a...
Madam Warwick's the brainchild of Annabeth Warwick, (a former prison warden) and Frank Edwards (a retired IT engineer and veteran). The converted estate in upstate New York first opened its doors in 2005 to a carefully selected group of two hundred 18-20 year old female students. The student body had grown to over 800 in the ensuing years. The school is a s...
While on vacation in Antigua my wife and I went on one of those snorkeling/sailing tourist day strips that have become almost mandatory when in the Caribbean. Being that our session was moved to later in the day, my wife and had our customary drinks at lunch time and were feeling rather buzzed. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that due to cancellat...
A man walks into my shop. He is a hottie. He is definitely not like all the other losers that come in here. He stands 6'3" tall, from what I can tell around 200lbs, brown hair, ocean blue eyes. He dresses like he is made of money, and yet not from here... I have to really focus on what he's asking since I can't seem to stop staring. I have to card everyone...
Dear Diary, Not even two weeks after I finally graduate from high school and I got a letter, it's from the Bureau of Human Resources; I have been drafted into becoming a "governmentally employed milk distributor". Whatever that means. I know that America hasn't used cows for dairy products in, like, twenty years but I've never even been to a farm. This soun...
Being a librarian won't exactly make you rich, and the mandatory Masters' degree comes with a mountain of student debt. I make a virtue out of necessity. Shopping the vintage stores, I pour my curves into pencil skirts, thigh highs and kitten heels. I wear cat's eye reading glasses on a chain around my neck. My style is flirty and retro, with a touch of sass...
Nothing phases Nancy. She is a busty blonde who has total belief in human kindness. She just knows everyone loves her, and this gives her a joy and confidence in life that indeed make her adorable. And fearless: she could not conceive that anyone or anything could possibly harm her. Her consequent demeanour of brimming confidence stands her in excellent stea...
I fell for her on the first day of class. She was petite and slim, with wavy shoulder-length black hair, almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones, and an incredible smile that would fill her entire face. She carried herself differently than the rest of her eighteen-year-old colleagues. She was mature, sophisticated, and possessed an incisive intelligence that rad...