"Battlefield" remains one of Star Trek's finest episodes and a brilliant commentary on the futility of discrimination.
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Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Day of the Dove
"Only a fool fights in a burning house."
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Assignment: Earth
Learning when to take action versus when to sit still - choosing our battles, in other words - is one of life's more challenging lessons.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Bread and Circuses
Bread and Circuses is spot on in criticizing both the business of television and all of us for being so dependent on it.
Order and Chaos
Life is not really gray, after all. It's a spectacle of colors and sounds...
A Walk by the Lake
Walking, like creativity, starts with a risky venture into the unknown.
Fight the Future
If we don't #RESIST and fight the future, who will?
Space Matters
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. My wife and I recently watched Julian Schnabel's 2018 film At Eternity's Gate. In the movie, Willem Dafoe plays Vincent Van Gogh during the years he lived in the south of France. During a brief scene of Van Gogh arranging the space where he lived and worked, I…
The Creative Organization
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. Even if, like me, you don't have children, you probably have some awareness of the ongoing debate about school start times. Teenagers tend to stay up late - sometimes it's so they can text with friends or play video games, but many times it's also because of homework,…
Create When You Can
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. I recently self-published a novella that I started writing in 2017. It was inspired by the life (and death, in early 2017) of a dog that I adopted from a shelter in 2002. It's called Buddy and Thomas, and it's about a stubborn dog that disrupts the life…
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