Here is a short story that is a follow-up to The First Suicide.

Here is a short essay I recently wrote. Its saving grace is that it is little!

Here is a quirky essay about repatriating looted antiquities.

Time Does Stop for No One

There was a time

Before which

There was no time.

There will be a time

After which

There will be no time.

[A month ago, when I was writing the silly poem, “Has-Beens”—which contains the phrases “old hat” and “yesterday’s news”—I started thinking about clichés. That’s it! I’ll write a poem entirely out of clichés! As original as I thought this idea was, alas, “there is nothing new under the sun.” In a recent Poets and Storytellers United blog, Magaly Guerrero had posted a contest for readers to turn clichés into poems (Magaly Guerrero, “Weekly Scribblings #6: Turn Cliché into Poetry or Prose,” Poets and Storytellers United, Wednesday, February 12, 2020. Web.). In compiling a list of examples I might use for my poem, I made use of the comprehensive compendium of clichés: Lisa Lepki, “The Internet’s Best List of Clichés,” ProWritingAid, Dec 09, 2020. Web.]

Here are two silly poems:

Here is an essay I wrote last February, but it seems that I didn’t post it. (Apologies if I did and this is a re-posting!)

Here is a silly poem:

Has-Beens

Sooner or later
Everyone becomes
A Has-Been

Old hat
Behind the times
Yesterday’s news.

Have you ever been a Has-Been? 
Passé? Past your prime? 
Out of date? Démodé?

I’m a Has-Been
But I’m happy
To have been what I has been.

For obvious reasons, given the proliferation of misinformation and “alternate facts” swirling around the internet and on Fox News, I have been thinking about stupidity as of late. Here is a tongue-in-cheek essay that I felt compelled to write.

Okay. Here is another set of homophones for you to match up. (See the previous “Match the Homophone Pairs” for an explanation of this word game.) If you get stuck, I’ve attached the answers below.