Skeptophilia

I've always been an animal lover.  I grew up with dogs, and have had one or more dogs or cats all of my adult life.  Add to that a near-...

Some years ago, I injured my left knee doing martial arts, and a couple of weeks later found myself inside an MRI machine.  The technician, ...

I was listening to tunes while running yesterday afternoon, and Christina Aguilera's beautiful song "Loyal, Brave, and True" (...

The first few years my wife and I were married, we had a dog named Doolin. At least I think Doolin was a dog.  The story is that she was bor...

It's fascinating how much information can transfer between two humans solely through eye contact. I say that as a person who has a serio...

A few weeks ago, a buddy and I were out for a walk on one of the local woodland trails.  It's a popular trail with bikers, runners, and ...

We have two dogs, our big thirty-kilogram galumphing galoot, Guinness: And his comical sidekick, little eight-kilogram Cleo: They are best b...

For this week's Fiction Friday, here's an odd little short story I wrote a while back when I was pondering what my life would be lik...

I learned a new term yesterday: parasocial relationship. It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celebr...