Last month I almost bought another house. Another because I didn’t plan to sell mine, but to keep and rent. It got as far as earnest money, inspections, and closing dates, but ended when mold was found and I suddenly remembered all that homes entail. I bought my home when I was 26, two years…

The Writer’s Guild of America is currently on strike and one of the things they are fighting for is that, going forward, the writers of screenplays must be human. According to an article about the strike and ChatGPT on Fortune.com, “the WGA’s basic agreement defines a writer as a “person” and only a human’s work…

I recently became obsessed with middle age; from the books I am reading, to the movies and shows I’m watching and the conversations I’m having, I can’t stop thinking about the fact that if I (God willing) live to be really old, I’m still likely half way there. It took me by surprise, which is…

The Sun Never Says Even after all this timeThe sun never says to the earth,“You owe Me.”Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky. -Hafiz