Collaboration Wanted. I’m looking for experienced screenwriters to collaborate on a spec-script on the rise and fall of Donald J. Trump. No money involved, just points if ever optioned and produced. My mission is to do a historically accurate story of how the craziness of the Trump Administration came
Boston
Downtown Crossing, Boston, Massachusetts © 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKer.com Tax-deductible business travel is one of the blessings of what has recently been dubbed “gig-work.” Gig workers take on short term projects, usually as independent contractors. Along with the tax benefit is a personal one: These extended stays for
Travel
© 2010-2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com BOSTON For the Californian, San Francisco comes to mind . But not so hilly, Walkable. But bricks, bricks, red bricks. Omnipresent. We’d have ‘em too except for ours Being shattered and culled in epic quakes. And so many Irish Pubs And other old
Rethinking “A Secular Prayer” ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com A few days after posting the “Compendium,” a narrative about my struggles with the concept of a God. My morning meditations transitioned into this “Secular Prayer.” That was a year before this update, which is being composed mid-December 2021.
God
© 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com A Secular Prayer Dear God, I’ll call You “God,” not from Faith, but from mere belief. Maybe someday it will be from pure faith. But now I only believe that You are there, reigning over this universe and the multitude of possible
While it seems I’ve lived my “civilian” life migrating up and down California’s Highway 99, my gig-worker, tech-life is different. It has been unfurled along U.S. Interstate70. I’ve recently called California 99 (formerly U.S. 99) “California’s Main Street,” and using a similar metaphor, we
Agnosticism
God-struggles, a Compendium ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Just now — no sooner than I had thought-up this title, “God-struggles,” an image of Jacob in the Bible, wrestling with God came to mind. He wrestled all night-long, never giving up, not winning but not losing either. For his persistence,
Agnosticism
An Argument with God © 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Dear God, If You are there, I’ll just call You, ” God,” because I don’t want to adopt potentially man-made labels for You. Also, If you don’t mind, until I am inspired otherwise, I will not address
Authorship of the Bible
The Bible, According to Vern ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com In OUR beginning God, (neither “he” “she” nor “it” — therefore, no pronoun but “God”) assembled some of God’s own essence, compacted it and sent it flying outward—which was the beginning of Time-as-we-know-it. Even at that moment,
Agnosticism
Catalyst © 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com This morning before the sky lost black I stood beneath a half-pie moon With Orion and the dog star at my back And could not but pray thanks, to the Unknown God Who set this heavenly array on high — But then I relented,
Good-hearted America
The Width, Depth and Breadth ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net The width, depth and breadth of America — Of American hearts — is unplumbable and unspanable. Her edges may be rocky and tempest-tossed, Clubbed and shattered by angry political waves, But the hearts are pure, as the plains
Job Seekers
To console a fellow Tweeter whose husband, an IT guy, was just laid off, I posted the following. Later, I began thinking. It took a while for me to ramp-up my success on LinkedIn and Dice.com. There are some pitfalls, for someone coming in, which waste a lot of
California Travel
©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net October 30, 2020 In my previous post, Travel | CaliforniaNotes I likened Texas and California as both being countries-within-a-country. Actually, California is more like a continent-within-a-(former)country. From semi-tropical San Diego and Los Angeles, to the Scotland-like, extreme North Coast, with
Agnosticism
Laptop or TV ? 2 ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com. WritersClass.net Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Our smart TV has myriad programs running—while it’s on. There are beautiful, dancing images on its face and music coming from its speakers. If I unplug it—it’s dead. Black.
Agnosticism
Laptop or TV? ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com. WritersClass.net Our smart TV has myriad programs running—while it’s on. There are beautiful, dancing images on its face and music coming from its speakers. If I unplug it—it’s dead. Black. The programs are gone. Nothing
California Travel
©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net California and Texas have a few things in common. They’re both big, both beautiful and both could be—and actually, both used to be. countries — republics. Both have endless beaches, semi-tropical cities, a coldish North, world-class agriculture — along with mountains