DarkDimension

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the ultimate inspirations for this blog, was born on this date in 1890. His tales are often dream-like and terrifying...

A great ship of the sky, white-prowed and silent, serenely sails across the great blue ocean of air, on its way towards high summer. I ...

Friday before last, or, rather, early that Saturday morning, I was dealing with yet another bout of insomnia. Like ol' Ben Franklin , I...

Occasionally I swing by the cemetery where my father is buried. I do it for the sake of my mother, who has some mobility issues and can'...

They seem remote, our ancestors, a gulf of time between us, their cultures differing from ours to the point of being alien. The details of t...

So I've been contemplating a long while on what to post about next on this blog. I'm sitting at 99 posts, and I've been overthin...

I started a Tumblr some time ago that lay fallow for a long while until I was recently reminded that I had it. I thought about what I would...

Wherever you are, there are beautiful sunsets. I will not presume to think the sunsets I can see from where I live are any more or les...

This will be a quick post to direct anyone who has a hankering to look at a lot of book covers to the still-in-progress gallery of my person...

Thought I'd close out the old year and welcome a new one by passing along one of my New Year's traditions: watching and listening to...

When I was a kid, I was often struck by the idea that at any given moment, someone somewhere on Earth was celebrating their birthday. Given ...

You know as well as I do, probably better, that none of us live in a vacuum. Our lives are a string of moments that teach us something, whe...