Happy World Chess Day! Again! Knowledge and experience are just facts and stories. Unless. You undergo transformation. To become what you’ve learned. I call that process "cocooning". I contemplate if I am the butterfly. Or the man. And revel in the mystery of whether my next metamorphosis will require the pawn’s quixotic journey to ...

Happy National Parents' Day! After four minutes of opening credits, we witness THIS plot regarding Jack Ryan's "very precocious" five-year-old daughter. And it does get resolved – TWO HOURS later. But I submit that the "Red October" was a "Red Herring". The real Soviet plan was to sneak a Kompromat collecting spy into the life of the future President.

Happy American Family Day! The "Jesus Movement" peaked just after I was born with Explo '72. It crashed to an end during the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s. And speaking of the Devil. Since most Evangelicals believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God – imagine the horror one mother may have felt birthing a son with the family name of ...