When I was a youngster, I was both repelled and fascinated by skeletons and the remains of the dead. While bones will always retain a tinge of horror, anguish, revulsion, and all the associations of graveyards and slasher-movie screams, I also now find a beauty and magnetic charisma to their naked simplicity and inferred motion.

Fossils and trips to museums helped to pry skeletons away from the realm of night-terrors, towards a sedate landscape of appreciation and admiration for the rhythms of anatomy. …

Jeff Bridges — New S**T has come to light

Just so we’re clear, that handsome middle aged duuude is not me. That is The Dude. Jeff Bridges. And he (as The Dude) is my profile photo. If you have not seen The Big Lebowski, starring Jeffrey Leon Bridges as The Dude, you have to check it out. Bridges is not only an inspiration for my Medium persona, but also for checking out the disease he has just been diagnosed with.

I first saw Bridges in Starman, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. I saw it at that impressionable age where the young brain stores profoundly useless items…

“…whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” — C. Darwin

Working backwards to the origin of life…

William F. Martin, Ph.D. is a former carpenter, born in Bethesda, Maryland, educated in Texas, who after hammering nails in Dallas moved to Hanover, Germany to get his degree in biology, and then to the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne for his Ph.D.

In July 2016, Madeline Weiss et al. from Martin’s lab published a paper in Nature Microbiology that worked backwards from today’s organisms to…

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

A big shout out to Adelia Ritchie and to Chrissie Morris Brady Ph.D for reaching out and helping here at WotWU. Thank you so much from the bottom of my cracked and wooden little heart for keeping this creaking WotWU moving along.

And thank you to all you wonderful and faithful writers and readers of WotWU for sticking with this idiosyncratic publication despite my recent tardiness and slowness. The uniqueness and beauty within is a reflection of you all, and I am honored to be a part of your creation and to bathe in your reflected light.

What follows are…

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

Just a note to y’all that I continue to focus on important extra-Medium matters, so my efforts and timeliness here have suffered. My apologies to those anxious to get their stories published — if you feel you need to submit elsewhere please do so. I don’t want to hold up your work. If you can bear with my slowness, I thank you. I am ever grateful and honored either way you decide.

These are the latest stories that y’all have submitted and I am honored to host on WotWU.

Please check the main WotWU page since I may have inadvertantly…

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

Just a note to y’all that I continue to focus on important extra-Medium matters, so my efforts and timeliness here have suffered. My apologies to those anxious to get their stories published — if you feel you need to submit elsewhere please do so. I don’t want to hold up your work. If you can bear with my slowness, I thank you. I am ever grateful and honored either way you decide.

These are the latest stories that y’all have submitted and I am honored to host on WotWU.

Please check the main WotWU page since I may have inadvertantly…

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

Just a note to y’all that I continue to focus on important extra-Medium matters, so my efforts and timeliness here have suffered. My apologies to those anxious to get their stories published — if you feel you need to submit elsewhere please do so. I don’t want to hold up your work. If you can bear with my slowness, I thank you. I am ever grateful and honored either way you decide.

These are the latest stories that y’all have submitted and I am honored to host on WotWU.

Please check the main WotWU page since I may have inadvertantly…

The Humble Home for Wayward Words…

These are the latest stories that y’all have submitted and I am honored to host on WotWU.

Please check the main WotWU page since I may have inadvertantly missed some amazing writers and their works. If I’ve left you out, give me a shout and I’ll rectify my error (and I apologize in advance).

Since last week’s update, we have published work by the following:

Patrick M. Ohana:

Anthi’s TeethA bite sonnet

Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion”Rhetorical master or guiding light

Anthi’s HumourA sunny alexandrine

Tree Mantinades*Where do I begin

“Zone Religieuse”Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Alcohols”

Anthi’s ImaginationA conversation

My Favourite…