Every time I finish a book, I think, “I am never gonna write a book again!” It’s so much fun to start them out, but then it gets hard. And then you finish and you have to go back and make it make sense. And…

Charlie and I have been watching a set of Great Courses lectures on Religions of the Axial Age. The past two have focused on Daoism (Taoism). Just in case you don’t know, I am all eat up with Daoism. One of the chapters of Laozi’s…

I’ve written about this before, in a post called To Cuss or Not to Cuss. That is the Goddamned Question, but the subject has come up in a practical sense. I heard about an anthology that will pay pro prices, called No Shit, There I…