Stuff I Used to Worry About

I used to worry about dying young; now, I just worry about dying. I used to worry about going bald; now, I just worry about my hat blowing off. I used to worry about getting fat; now, I just worry that I’m not worried about getting fat. I used to worry about being publicly humiliated; […]

Death Rituals Around Time and the World

Viking: If you were revered enough, your body was put on a ship and, after the ship had moved far enough away from shore, a flaming arrow would set the boat on fire and incinerate the deceased… unless the archer missed; then, you’d just have a dead guy on a boat. Ancient Egypt: Mummies! In […]

Excerpt From Book I’m Working on

Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. Death is what happens to you when you are making other plans while standing in a crosswalk. It’s hard to define life and death… if something thrived as a plasma on the surface of our Sun would it be alive? And, if it […]

I Go Dark Again: Thoughts on Death

I thought that I was dying, once, but my life did NOT flash before my eyes. Instead, I relived the final season of Three’s Company, which was nice because Priscilla Barnes was just coming into her own, then. If I’m ever found dead in a motel room in women’s underwear, I hope to God I’m […]