A comprehensive directory for Day Tripping About seventeen years ago, I had the occasion to visit a new museum that opened near Trafalgar square in London, UK. The display was divided into two sections, the first being a walkthrough of the bunker offices where Churchill and his command team operated during WWII. The second part of…

Life is filled with Crossroads. Choosing those which fire the imagination — As we move through life we are met with choices. If you move slowly, the choices are bountiful, and sometimes too many. So you speed up a bit, travelling past successive crossroads at a pace where a decision isn’t an option. Then, you find you’re moving faster and faster, and…

At least, my family thinks I am — The play on words aside, a better fiction writer is what I aspire to be, and reading better writers like Liam Ireland and Britni Pepper inspire me to pick up my game. Finding these terrific writers on ILLUMINATION-Curated and ILLUMINATION has somehow lit a fire in my brain. Their inspiration…

How to get more from your viewing experience — Movies of the past still hold magical powers of imagery and symbolism that resonate today. If you appreciate the artistry and detail that goes into filmmaking and you would like to explore cinema’s rich and diverse history with a discerning eye, please join me on a journey of rediscovery. …

Musical Motivation Glam Style With a Bonus — If you want some early week motivation, look no further than a band that produced and performed without pretense, without ulterior motives, and still managed to invent a new genre. Yet, it took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame an astounding 48 years to induct this band; further proof…

The ones who get what Medium should be about — Like many when the pandemic took hold of our lives, I gravitated toward fulfilling a dream I’d had for a long time. I suddenly found that I had time on my hands, and always wanted to test myself and learn to become a writer. Medium seemed the perfect outlet to…

Is doomed to be our future — Social commentary was generally the domain of the folk genre in the 1960s. Yet, on rare occasions, the lines were blurred between folk and rock, and the refrain seeped into the psychedelic era. In 1971, Alvin Lee and the British rock band Ten Years After recorded a song that resonates…

Of the remote kind — Lives become busy again in the workaday world. The time for frivolities has passed. Would-be writers return to normal activities, such as they are, and Medium becomes the afterthought it was before we got locked away. Cabin lights are on, seatbelt signs are extinguished, and we are free to move…