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Three reasons I can no longer be a Facebook user

Facebook erodes journalistic integrity.  Facebook takes power and money away from journalists and small news shops. See Reuters article. The latest example is the hostile and hardball plays with the Australian government to not pay journalists for the content they create and Facebook profits from. See WSJ article. Facebook makes no distinction between suitable, fact-checked …

August 2022: Night Meeting

This is a short story I wrote this summer inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “August 2002: A night meeting” from the martian chronicles. Michael peeled back the black tape on the dashboard on the car to reveal the orange blinking signal “check engine” he scoffed to himself, why am I not surprised. Michael’s father was putting …

What is Agape

Jesus said that the core of being Christian is to love God and love thy neighbor as thyself. Except Jesus wouldn’t have used these words. This is the English translation and English has a very loose definition of that keyword, love. We use the same word to say “I love you, mom” as we do …

What is the greatest gift you can give someone?

my dad and I were stuck in traffic driving up to Sonoma County for a family weekend. We were talking for a while and eventually, he asked me, “well, what’s the greatest gift you could give someone?” I thought about this question for a long time, the whole weekend. I came up with my answer: …

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