The Cranky Oracle

We tend to think of sudden things as bad things. Sudden tragedy. Sudden death. Sudden illness. But we rarely talk about good things in su...

This is difficult for me to write. I've been sad and I'm not good at owning sadness. I have no patience for it within myself. To ...

J.P.J: September 24, 1960 - May 7, 2007 Dear John, Ten years. A decade. You used to say, "Five years will go by anyway." Le...

They're out there, everywhere you go, watching what you do, listening to what you say. It doesn't matter if it's directed at ...

A few of weekends ago I was hanging with a couple of friends. As is typical, our (only sometimes drunken) discussion topics wandered and ...

One of the reasons I dislike social gatherings, especially when they involve people I don't know, is that inevitably someone will ask...

I've been sitting on the sidelines watching people throw blame around for things happening in their personal lives as well as in the w...