Was thinking this morning of a fiction piece set in a reality where everyone lived the exact same amount of time. Death wasn’t a surprise; it happened precisely and promptly to everyone at some definite mark (like the last day of their 75th year or something). The mechanics of such and the resulting social and […]

I was hiking through the snow in the Colorado foothills today. It was absolutely gorgeous. At one point I saw a dead tree that had fallen between a couple others – the dead tree was a little bigger than any of the others but was now being supported by the bows of those several resilient-looking […]