Every day I go to the same coffee shop and order the same thing. It is one of those constants in my life. I’ve written about it often because honestly, it is sometimes the best part of my day. This morning I was running late and there was a line at the counter that was …
Author Archives: Sean D. Francis
Strangers Live Here Now
I own things in my heart that I don’t actually own. Yes, that is as weird as it sounds. I grew up on a lake in Montana. It wasn’t a private lake. It was shared with all sorts of people with cabins who lived there during the weekends on the summer, but only a few …
The Crevice on Christmas
Written over two days, the following is a literary present to myself. I hope others enjoy it. The Crevice on Christmas by Sean D. Francis The final days of the year happened to also be the coldest in the mountains of Montana. The day after the solstice temperatures dropped so low new records were set. …
A Mike Kruhl Story: Ask the Telephone
Mike Kruhl is my alter ego who was a golden age of science fiction writer. The stories… aren’t good, they are tongue-in-cheek, usually efforts to break out of a writing rut. I hadn’t posted any fiction to the blog lately, so I dug this up, written in September 2007. Ask the Telephone “Bullpunk! The Cleveland …
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: 13
Very few people would claim Baltasar Gracian was simple.  Maxim 13 is a very complex tightly woven strategic sentiment. This isn’t about philosophy per se, it is one of those sentiments that seems kind of Machiavellian or Sun-Tzu-ian. In a different translation than the free one that I use for the purpose of this blog …
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: 12
It has been sometime since I visited the core purpose of this blog – the continued exploration of Baltasar Gracian’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom. As a person who strongly believes philosophy plays a vital role in understanding our world, I rely heavily on the concept of ‘the state of nature’. In many ways I …