Meandering Monday about Imagining What We Think We Know

I write speculative fiction – it’s a term that encompasses Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (among other things.) Th speculative element is something that is known to not be real (At the time of writing, at least – we don’t go back and remove the SPECULATIVE label on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Who You REALLY Know

I was having a conversation with someone from one of the younger generations (that would be just about anyone, wouldn’t it) and we were talking about friends, and what that means these days. There are people you know in the REAL world – people you’ve actually seen in public. Maybe you work with them, or … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about What We Really Know

We do our best to understand the world around us. Assuming our understanding is true, our thoughts are happening inside our skulls, pretty much isolated from everything else. We rely on information coming to us from outside… of whatever it is we think we are on the inside. We have to trust that information, but … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Virtue Signaling

I get so tired of the symbolism over substance society we seem to live in nowadays. People climb on board of causes with armbands, hashtags, pat phrases and expressions designed to show that they’re on the proper – or politically correct – side of an issue. Virtue signaling – it seems more a tribal signal, … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Wheat and Chaff

We just celebrated Easter Sunday – a pivotal day for Christians. The more I think about it, it’s amazing how Christianity spread across the world. Consider the communication methods of the time – no printing presses, radio, television, major media, or internet to disseminate the information, and yet it spread across the world. There are … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Spotting the Insanity

How do you know if you’re crazy? And if you know, then are you? Usually, we determine whether someone is crazy by comparison – are they seeing the world the same as the rest of us? Is their concept of REALITY a match with what we KNOW to be true? That’s how echo chambers and … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Anti-Social”

“Anti-Social” came from thinking about how we are losing personal contact as the internet and social media evolve. We’re also creating ridiculous quantities of data. What if in the future all data is transitory – statisticians determined that there will always a copy of anything somewhere (a PC, a server, a phone), so permanent storage … Continue reading →