For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.