A very pumpkin New Year

It has been a very bizarre year. It wasn’t enough that we had to deal with a massively disruptive pandemic, which affected all aspects of life, but the world was affected by additional oddities in 2020 that were almost too strange for words. We had murder hornets.  We had massive wildfires that destroyed the Australian […]

Black Tuesday on a Friday

Am I correct in assuming that we have all heard of the term Black Friday? Every years millions of Americans “celebrate” this day of retail gluttony that follows the day of actual gluttony that is Thanksgiving  by swarming malls, big box retail business, colossal stand-alone department stores, and various purveyors of caffeinated beverages, with the […]

Incubus, the super sweet demon

It seems I have a mild obsession with mythology.  I know the stories to be fantastic and supernatural, and I also know the tales to be stimulating and imaginative.  While most of my constitution relies on logical and concrete assumptions,  I can’t help that sometimes I am drawn to the mystical and  phantasmagoric elements of […]