My friend Manfred Wolf writes a regular column for the West Portal Monthly in San Francisco. Yesterday, he sent me a copy of his latest offering, which appears in the August 2014 edition. He has...

©2014 Vernon Miles Kerr Given the thousands of stars recently discovered having planets, it is realistically possible that advanced alien intelligence might well be watching our barbaric, primitiv...

What is Patriotism? © 2014 Vernon Miles Kerr Like the previously examined concept, “Love,”[1] “Patriotism”, is one of those emotionally and semantically charged words that can mean many things to...

What is Love? © 2014 Vernon Miles Kerr What is love? The child’s answer: “The opposite of hate.” Our simplistic opinions of the universe, as children—even though seeming too pat—often contain more...

©2014 Vernon Miles Kerr Since this is a blog by a writer for writers and the public as well. I thought it might be interesting for you to see how the previous post looked after suggestions made by ...

Members of my family know how NUTS I’ve been about airplanes all my life. I even had the blessing of having a boss who owned a Cessna 172 and would entice me to better sales performance by offering...

When we are children, the definition of “reality” is clear cut. It’s the opposite of “fantasy.” When we grow older, we realize that one person’s reality is not necessarily another’s and that the sc...

A beautiful young lady I met at a meeting in North Carolina a few years ago is now college age. She asked if I could give her a little jump-start on an assignment to write a poem on the subject of ...

A Moment Called “Ontario” © 2009, 2014 by Vernon Miles Kerr Not long ago, heading home to Northern California from San Diego, I was driving through a new multilevel freeway interchange that conne...

Yin and Yang © 2014, 2018 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com writersclass.net As do the Yin and Yang, The black and white Of that ancient Asian dichotomy, The antipodes of Human Natur...