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The Gratitude Dog & I

When I was living with my room mate(s) a lot of people would come over and leave the door wide open and my dog Barosa would run off and we would have to chase her down, luckily we had obtain/attracted some really good hearted people over in this area and they would bring her home […]

The Fax Machine

His eyes closed, wearied from too much Wikipedia, and staring at a lonely inbox. As they did, the screensaver on the monitor on the desk kicked in, strobing enough light to alternately illuminate his inner eyelid with light blue and white. As his mind drifted along, Mark thought about how technology had changed his life, […]

Please Hear What I’m Not Saying

Up until – probably the last 5 years – I always tried to pretend like I was perfect. How are you Scott? I’m fine. Doing great. What’s happening? Just really busy. Doing this. Doing that. It’s all good. In short, I would try and hold everything I could from those around me in order to […]

Reaching Goals Requires a Map

Set a goal of making a million dollars and you’ll have a good chance of reaching it. Make no goals; you’ll have a good chance of reaching those too. When I was in high school I had a friend David that had a piece of paper over his desk with $1,000,000 printed in large black […]

Jane Austen’s “Neat and Simple” English Creamware

Jane Austen Viagra Professional started to write “Northanger Abbey” in 1798. It was sold to a publisher in Bath for £10 in 1803 but as he felt it was a bit out of fashion with its Gothic subject, put it in a desk draw, and there it sat until finally published, posthumously, in 1818. Synopsis […]

The Story Behind Hidden Subliminal Messages

The concept was first introduced in 1897, but the idea became contentious as hidden subliminal messages in 1957. This is when marketing people claimed the use of hidden subliminal messages as tool in persuasion. The following battery of scientific investigation, however, failed to duplicate majority of these marketing claims outside of a mere placebo. The […]

A Visit With a Sirian

I was recently approached by Teresa Silverthorn of Conversations with a Mystic to write a brief introduction about myself – how I came to do what I was doing, what got me involved in all this, etc. Well, it didn’t take me a New York minute to realize I had no idea what to write […]

A Match Consumes the Darkness – a Dark Jedi Gone Good

I was born on March 13, 1985. It was the Week of The Dancers & Dreamers, Pisces III, Density of Innocence, and Chinese Zodiac year of the Ox. All I can say to this is “Philosophical, Miracle Working & Helpful,” and this is what I’ve come to be – but before this came to be, […]