Steve's Writing

  At the summit of Mt. Everest, the temperature never rises above freezing.   Wind speeds in May are 20-35 mph, the temps range from 0° Fahr...

The reluctant ones are my favorites.  I am always captivated by the reluctant time-travelers.  I’m drawn to their stories. It’s Claire Randa...

To say the Blizzard of '78 was memorable is to seriously undersell it. In early February 1978, the storm hit New England with lit...

That’s what I felt I needed: some really clever song about rivers. I wanted to focus on them in this week’s reflection. I thought it would...

Dad only worked at the brothel for about a week.  There was in my hometown what was called “a house of ill repute.” There’s a lot ...

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."   —Annie Dillard, The Writing Life How’s your life going? Does it...

Inside the box:  (a) one vial of poison, (b) one mechanism for spilling it, and (c) one cat.  The set up:  if the mechanism activates, t...