Faith Trust and Pxie Dust

Rene Descartes held the bible in his hands the day he became the first quantum physicist. Though he would never live to know this truth – if he ever lived at all – he sat everyday underneath the shadow of the expatriated French parasol that obscured his mind and body – if mind and body proved to be connected at all – and ate a fallen apple as an homage to a distant future he would never know. He…

The fourth Discworld novel begins the Death arc, a series of five books centered around the classically hooded figure and his family. Death – who has appeared in each of the previous books so far – is exactly what you would expect: a dazzling, blue-eyed skeleton wielding an hourglass and scythe. The hourglasses, affectionately called Lifetimers, measure the lifespans of all living beings on the…

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I traveled this country coast to coast. From the tops of mountains to the pits of despair, I pressed my tongue to the American crust and licked my way to a full continental breakfast complete with the Texas shaped waffles we all love.  There are a lot of things I learned, and a lot of things I had to unlearn. No thanks to a couple of states (I won’t name…