Grandma was unwell. Everyone was unwell, these days. Some people got sick from the rivers, or the air, or the smells belching from the furnaces. But Grandma was especially unwell, so unwell the Shiboni

So, after two months of getting a new job (on a whole new continent!) and tidying up, I'm back and ready to be writing again on Steemit. I've also been reading a lot of webcomics, but since I can't draw,

Grandma was unwell. Everyone was unwell, these days. Some people got sick from the rivers, especially after they stopped running tests and started telling people the glowing water was a sign of progress.

The day you wake up and realize you hear the wind differently is the day you know you have lived on the plains. I'm a child of rolling hills and trees, where we could huddle behind buildings and branches

He was an old Indian. His face was weather beaten, but his eyes were still bright. I never knew what tribe he was from, though I could guess. Yet others from the tribe whom I talked to later had never

My subject is those emotions They forgot to name when handing out The words that bound ideas to thoughts Subtle magic, really, but often forgotten A magic of formless thought wrapped, With grasping tendrils

Two children born under a gray star in a cloudless sky. One had wandering eyes surrounded by his fat little baby cheeks. The other had closed eyes, content to enter the world sleeping. The first was crying,

There is a dappled beauty to the desert in its short spring bloom. Bridges in the desert. It's not what you would expect, when talking about a desert. Bridges usually imply water, while a desert is defined

There are some things you only love when you miss them. Maybe you loved them before, but you didn't realize it until they were slipping away. So it has been with me and Oklahoma. Oklahoma was hardly my

The Amish (trademark pending) announced today that after two hundred years of resisting Englischer ways and technology, the new MacBook Pro has pulled them into the digital age. "We have decided,"

There were once two sisters. One had yellow hair, yellow like the dandelions that bloom every spring. The other had black hair, dark as the night when the electricity goes out. Two sisters, same mother,

Do you ever see your water bill in the mail and want to cry? Have you ever wondered what precisely is in the water? Or, do you live in Flint, Michigan? Or a megalopolis in a developing country? What if

My boss at summer camp once noted that in 100 years, we haven't really changed how we produce electricity. We are still dependent on the basic turbine designs worked out by Westinghouse and others in the

I watched Marvel's Logan tonight. It's...a very strange superhero movie. There have been a lot of boundary-pushing superhero movies lately, starting with Watchmen back in 2009 but accelerating with the

Falling, falling broken star, Glowing moment from afar, Everyone knows what you are, Up above with blinding might, Blasting earth and rock away, Run away, run away! Falling, falling broken star The lyrics

Cryptocurrencies are the strange new kid on the block, not exactly respectable but also a subject of way too much discussion. They are often hyped as a means of faster, better financial transaction. Bitcoin

When all strength is gone and your body can take no more, rest your eyes a little dear one. We have pushed together, you and I, through forest and thicket to the cold rushing stream. The water is rushing

This is my third post on my rewatch of the Fellowship of the Ring. To see the other posts, click here: This is the ultimate crisis of the movie, as Boromir attacks Frodo and the Uruk-hai try to steal the

By now, the idea of a let's play is famous. I'm not much of a gamer and I find watching others play games just a bit dull. But you know what I love? Books. I love reading them, and discussing them, and

Tonight, I watched the second part of the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings. You know, the one with the Balrog and Moria and Lorien and the death of Boromir. The Happy Part. But since I watched