Category Archives: Essays

The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field with the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our lives. However, there are also some potential dangers associated with AI.  In this essay, I will discuss some of the most dangerous things about AI, as well as the potential harm that may… Read More »

I’m a Fat Old Hump

    I’m a Fat Old Hump First, let me preface this by honoring my best friend, Jeff, who passed away almost two-and-a-half years ago. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t think about him and his many “Jeffisms” as I called them. Trust me, most of them are not the kind of thing I’d… Read More »

Listen to the Rain

Listen to the Rain Have You Ever Listened To The Rain? Have you memorized the sound of it as it pours down on the streets and the roofs and the leaves and the grass? Now it is a sunny day and for all the world it looks like summer, feels like summer, smells like summer, yet it won’t… Read More »

Dare to Imagine – Dare to Dream

    Dare to Imagine – Dare to Dream Everything I was meant to be I am and you can surely see That I am in reality All I am supposed to be. I am nothing more and nothing less Than I am willing to confess. In the hands of time, I ride Until they say, “He finally… Read More »

Close but No Cigar: My Defense of Cliches

  Close but No Cigar: My Defense of Cliches Some people mistakenly think cliches are so overused that they lose their original meaning or impact. They think only a bad writer would resort to using a bunch of cliches. Some think wannabe writers who use cliches are lazy, boring, or unimaginative. But today, I come to praise cliches,… Read More »

Beautiful Morning

    Beautiful Morning I see some children waiting for the school bus… It is such a beautiful morning, and the children look so happy. It makes me pause for a moment and remember a time in my life when I was a child and I waited for the school bus on a spring day just like this.… Read More »