It is 9:35 p.m. and I am literally just writing to write, hoping that something great comes out of it. I have spent most of the afternoon trying to overcome a fear of failing. I’m trying to build something and I’m afraid people won’t want…
Reading and writing and working—the three things that have filled most of the last two weeks. I am so excited for the little progress here at Greater Ape, but I need to add content, and while I’ve been writing quite a bit, nothing lately has…
Today marks the 56th anniversary of the assassination of one of my heroes, the civil rights leader Medgar Evers. He was shot down in his own driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, on the night of June 12, 1963, with his wife and children inside waiting for…
She stood surrounded by fossilized reconstructions of dinosaur bones, looming large and almost frighteningly all around, but Judy was only mildly interested in them. Instead, she was intensely fascinated by and fixated on the small, prehistoric isopods, starfish and bug fossils. I was somewhat dumbfounded…
Yesterday, I received an email from the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It was an announcement of its Halloween mixer, and the subject line invited me to “Party With Spooks!”. I opened it out of mild curiosity, saw there would be drinks, dancing and loud…
I grew up believing in God and going to church regularly for periods of time but usually just during holidays, at least while I lived with my parents. They were Protestant and we attended a First Baptist church sporadically for a few years. But they…
Thus far, all species have evolved simply to survive. To live and procreate is all that matters to the lion, spider, parasite or otherwise. Through the evolutionary process, many species have fallen away never to exist again. Even today, we see this struggle throughout nature.