Serials

I single out from time to time a series of related posts which, when taken together, form a complete story or topic.  Some of them may be jokes and some may be tidbits that I find entertaining or enlightening and some may be personal explorations, but each serial, as I intend to call them, will have something in common — they’ll be told over the course of days to weeks to months (and possibly to years?) and will only create a complete picture at the end of the series.

Some of these serials will not start as a series of posts but will instead turn out that way as time progresses.

You can always find a list of all of the serials by coming to the page you’re currently viewing, available in this version of xenogere via the "serials" tab in the page header.

Fiction

  • Darkness Comes to Kingswell - This is a fictional short story written as an experiment.  It’s an online draft of something I’m developing offline and is being posted as it takes shape.

Humor

  • Being Older - I wee bit of geriatric humor compliments of Mom.
  • Murphy’s Laws - A humorous collection of anecdotal laws attributed to or based on the now infamous Murphy.

Literature

  • The Prophet - My favorite excerpts from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet.  These are the most important, meaningful, provacative, and enlightening excerpts from the book, at least as far as I’m concerned.
  • The Beloved - My favorite excerpts from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Beloved.  Consider it proof of the work’s subtitle: “Reflections on the Path of the Heart.”

Personal

  • Washout Lane - A compilation of drafts too long in the tooth to survive in the wild, so they are presented here in memoriam of works unwritten.
  • Relativity - My original and subsequent self exploration and contemplations regarding Rick, my dear friend of more than a decade.  I’ve had a crush on him since I met him in early 1994.
  • The Snow - A photographic and artistically stylized tale of truth.  It is one morning of my life captured from Valentine’s Day 2004, a wonderful "snow day" in Dallas.
  • First death, then what? - A study of life after death.  As an atheist, do not expect an examination of metaphysical myths and faithful fictions.  Instead, it is a personal evaluation of ongoing life after the death of a loved one.

Philosophy

Photography

  • The silence of snow - Various photographs of the spectacular and convenient snowstorm in Dallas on Valentine’s Day 2004.

Religion

  • Creationism by any other name - I eventually became quite entertained by the idea of "intelligent design" and its nefarious purposes; this is the result.

Society

  • Gay marriage - The debate surrounding gay marriage continues at a heated pace.  It’s ugly.  It’s political.  It’s religious.  Those who oppose the idea simply aren’t thinking things through before they make their arguments.
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