How a legendary basketball coach’s obsession with socks led to a miracle on a youth soccer field. Rincon Rangers AYSO soccer team (recreated by Gemini AI & edited by author) I...
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The (mostly) true story of a foggy London night and a very good turn The Unknown Scout rescues Boyce from the ‘pea-souper’ and points him toward the Tube station (Gemini ai image prompted...
Wildcat Fever: March Madness Is a Public Health Crisis in Tucson
How Arizona basketball hijacks our productivity, our sanity, and our marriages every spring Wildcat fans celebrate victory (AI Image generated by Gemini 3) In springtime Tucson's...
The 1.8-Second Psychology Lesson: Witnessing the Five Stages of Grief in Real Time
I used to dismiss psychology as “psychobabble” until a disaster with twenty crystal glasses provided the proof I was looking for. My oldest school buddy, Jeff, showed up one afternoon...
A geologist, a Young Earth Creationist, and a standoff over 1.2 billion missing years In Blacktail Canyon, June 2025, John Wakefield ponders the fate of Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake in...
Watching heroes on the news triggered a 1949 memory of a locked toilet and two men in Air Force blue. AI image generated by nano banana prompted by the author (note that the characters are...