Rifling through some old papers today I found this little fragment from 22 years ago and thought I might post it as one from the vault....

When you are writing fiction (especially deep mythic fiction, channeled from somewhere else) your characters sometimes give you...

I recently had the pleasure of reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Actually "pleasure" might be too strong a word. Steinbeck's...

It is difficult to know what to say about Erich Fromm, especially in a short piece such as this. He seems to me to be a total outlier in...

"You know what you are to me, he said. What I was before I met you. I breathed and I moved but my life stood only in the desolate places....

The problem with the departure of traditional religion from the West is that along with all of the craziness and credulity there remains...

If ever a writer had the gift of the Elf-minstrels it was J. R. R Tolkien. His astonishing ability to conjure up fantastic lands and...

One purpose of From the Chronicles of Lupa is to unearth and uncover deeper emotions than are usually portrayed in modern fiction;...