Building an “Atomic Bomb”.
One of my most memorable memories from my childhood is when I was nine years old. I overheard my father and older brothers talk about the atom bomb and nuclear weapons, how they could wipe our cities out and possibly destroy our world. All this information blew me away, it sparked my interest profoundly. I [...]
Emily the Strange and Rosamond
There were several books I read as a child that eventually were forgotten but, somehow, life inexplicably spurred me to remember them. Files lost in my hard drive were not lost at all, my mind just needed some shaking to remember things from my childhood. I remembered The Giving Tree, Amelia Bedelia, Where the Wild [...]
The Qualities of a Gentleman
I’m here at the University of Houston’s Satellite Center, eating a Chick-fil-a, and I started thinking about the qualities of a gentleman. The other day, I stumbled upon a quote by Winston Churchill, “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
I really have to agree [...]
Drunk Spider-Man
I was driving around the city and, out of the blue, I was greeted by this sight. Spider-Man was apparently locked out of his apartment by Mary Jane Watson! Observing Spidey in such a state, I could only imagine that he was out drinking on the roof tops late at night and possibly having an [...]
Sparky
This past July 4th, my family and I were catching the fireworks in our front lawn, during the evening. Luckily, fireworks are sold in the area of town we live in and we were enjoying other people’s light shows long after we ran out of our own supplies. All of a sudden, one of my [...]