Faith Trust and Pxie Dust

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been attempting to play chess your entire life. Have you succeeded? No. Have you been badly beaten by a wizard with a chess board at your local public library? Maybe.  So what exactly makes chess hard? No doubt, it’s the lack of historical accuracy. Below you’ll find the new and improved rules for America’s favorite pastime based on a tried and true feudal…

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…