If you are like me, you are captivated by the war in Ukraine. The draw to me is certainly not the “sport” of war. I have never had a desire to play war video games and have a dislike of war movies. I was in the Air Force as a medical officer, and we had…

I suspect we are all mesmerized by the war in Ukraine. It breaks my heart. One of my greatest interest these days is the pursuit of truth, or epistemology (the study of how we find truth or knowledge). This horrible war is an example of lies gone to seed as hate. Putin lies to himself.…

I’ve been busy making podcasts. Actually, with my book at the editors and there is no writing waiting for me each morning, and the fact that I will be traveling starting this Friday for a few weeks, I thought I would do two podcast back to back. But these are two in a series which…

Here is my new podcast, titled Possible Answers to Basic Philosophical Questions and you can listen to it here. What are the possible answers to why the cosmos exist, why do we sense we are persons, and why is there evil in the world. This is a 29- minute lecture that summarizes a 2-hour lecture…

As part of my struggle against cancer, I try to exercise when I can. My friend Jerry was a godsend when I first came home from the hospital, encouraging me to walk with him daily around a 2.5-mile loop. As my strength grew, I added more exercise including dog walks, climbing our local 1000-foot mountain…

(Unrelated to this topic, I published a new podcast today, The Search for Truth; A Neurologist’s Perspective here.) What are Strokes? There was a psychological theory called transactional analysis (circ. 1950) that was somewhat of a bridge from Freudian psychoanalytic analysis to behaviorism. When I earned my degree in psychology (and a simple BS in…

I am a news junky, but only when there is something big in the world like an earthquake, or a war. As I’ve tried to get as much real-time information on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I found myself in a Russian chat room. With the help of a good Russian-English translator, I followed the…

After thirteen months of hard work, more than a thousand hours of typing and re-typing, the manuscript for The Runner Stone left today for the editor. The manuscript was the 23rd rewrite. If you were an early “beta reader” you won’t recognize this version. But your help and feedback was the foundation upon which I…

I’ve been experimenting in ways I can make this web page easier and better for those who want to visit, and myself. As I’ve described before, this page is an Amalgam of three watersheds, 1) post-evangelical discussions, 2) my fiction writing, and 3) cancer. I personally left evangelicalism in 1990 and landed in a wilderness…

Introduction No, I’m not the kind of person who would go to a “COVID party” to intentional get COVID, because it is “natural” and will give me “natural immunities.” The problem with that notion is first, it is like playing Russian Roulette with a ten-chamber revolver. One chance in ten you will have long-haul consequences…