Yellow Rose and Ram Foot
Cancer, Knives and Good News
The cancer treatment is working. This is good in more ways than just added time. My lower left leg was almost paralyzed because of cancer-caused nerve impingement. With the success of the treatments, that impingement is mostly gone and I am on the road to mobility through physical therapy by an outstanding practitioner. I've slowly…
Father Son Journey – Over
We traversed thirteen states in about three weeks, went to four Major League Baseball games, survived hellacious rain storms, ate probably the best barbecue in America (Joe's in Kansas City), survived the seemingly endless monotony of western Kansas and all of Nevada, and in Northern California met up with old friends and ate as much…
Coast to Coast, Father and Son Day One
We have long planned this trip; Travis finishing is doctoral work in New York, me joining him there then driving to San Francisco with a stop at our home in Colorado. All was going well. My cancer is under control and my strength and attitude were good. Then I got hit with sepsis in April…
The Spot
Please do not re-post, copy or reproduce without my permission. All stories and poems are copyright by me. This short story is published here by request of SEF. The Spot Money can’t buy you love, but it can hook you up to a hundred pound rainbow. ©2015 Michael D. Scott It was a good day…
AGI Thoughts
I spend time on the Spyderco Forums and one of the members asked me to comment on what was really the topic of artificial intelligence as related to nanotechnology. I've thought a great deal about AI, especially AGI (artificial general intelligence) and composed a reply based on the recent development of AlphaGo Zero. Games. Complex…
Cancer
A couple of months ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The intervening time has been spent dealing with this physically and mentally. So, I just let this site go. But now, I intend to occasionally put up some thoughts for those who might care to read them. I restarted my A Man…
In the Orphan
That Rocky Mountain high feeling begins to run thin as you travel south of Denver and Colorado Springs on Interstate 25. Passing through the small city of Pueblo and its silent steel mills one rolls through terrain more like New Mexico or maybe the Texas panhandle, the plains stretching out to the east, broken by…
The Beginning and End of Christianity
Two years ago I finished three years of research into the history of Christianity, concentrating on its beginnings. I cast the results of that research in an historical novel about what might actually, historically have happened during the life of a Jewish prophet, Jesus from Nazareth. There is a surprising amount of research on this…
The Long Goodbye
I've been a liberal since I discovered the City Lights Books store and the beatnik writers whose works they published in the 1950s. I am a Viet Nam veteran who thinks now, and thought at the time, that the war was wrong, that we were on the wrong side, but, having been committed we should…
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