To help you appreciate the complete art of Lakeside’s popular Little Theater, I want to share with you what goes on behind the stage and into the hidden corners and corridors one never sees. It is often better than the show.

I hate to be the one to bring this to everybody’s attention, but a team from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and a neurotechnology company has developed an “electroencephalography cap,” coupled with a “generative artificial intelligence system,” that makes it possible to read minds.

I’m really tired of archaeological discoveries. Every week it seems there’s news of an unknown human-like species nobody knew existed before.

Are there mysterious forces at play that seem to spin your life or a significant area of it out of control for no really logical reason?

The name Gulf of Mexico had nothing do with the country we know today, which has the same name.

I get a lot of people asking me how I learned creative writing. My comment is always the same, “I dropped out of school and played touch-football on campus.” This made me dumber.