I had heard some rumblings about a series of books by author Lee Child centering on a character named Jack Reacher. In fact, over the years,...

My occasional blog series "Observations" was created to be an outlet to share a variety of topics that pop into my field of view ...

Sometimes I hear an utterance or catch a quick visual of something that sticks in my mind. As this sensory input rolls about in my head, sev...

A literary device commonly employed in ancient Hebrew poetry is known as synonymous parallelism . This high-brow term describes a pair of su...

A day off from work ... a day to relax with your family ... a day to toss back some brews and some brauts ... Sure these are all good things...

I just finished the novel Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin. If you thought for a moment that Martin was a one trick pony when it came to p...

While I have not touched an actual newspaper in some time, I do skim through the online news headlines each day. There is always something t...