A House With All the Children Gone

A House With All the Children Gone

Lately my mind has been wandering back to my first days of high school. The change from summer to fall often makes me nostalgic, and the feeling has been more vivid than usual this time. Perhaps this oncoming season bears a special resemblance to that long-vanished fall of my freshman…
September 3, 201922 Comments
Something Was Watching

Something Was Watching

From time I like to take a break from chronicling Western civilization's collapse and share a story that reminds us there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in presidential politics. Contra the experts on campus and cable news, our understanding of the world is far…
August 22, 201912 Comments
Missing Pieces

Missing Pieces

When you really come to accept the influence that spiritual evil can have on the mundane world, it's hard not to see a sinister unseen hand behind the more tragic and puzzling events of your life. To be sure, you can't discount apophenia--seeing patterns where none exist. The human brain…
July 30, 20199 Comments
Green Giant

Green Giant

My crypto-reader returns will a spiritual successor to the tale he shared last time. So, I was just out visiting my cop buddy in Indiana for the first time in two years, and he was regaling me with the backlog of Tales of Rural Police Adventures while we're out target…
July 9, 20193 Comments
The Old Man of the Woods

The Old Man of the Woods

A reader who shall remain anonymous for reasons that the post will make self-evident kindly provides us with an eerily intriguing diversion. Cousin lived with my grandparents in a hunting cabin in Missouri. Still lives there now that they're gone. Their neighbor back then was this old Indian guy who…
May 8, 201929 Comments
RIP Art Bell

RIP Art Bell

A weekend news item that may have gotten lost in the shuffle with all the stories about Syria, Russia, and Trump's lawyer was the death of legendary talk radio host Art Bell. Art had been mostly retired for over a decade. My audience tends to skew younger, so it's unclear…
April 18, 20183 Comments