Thomas Crockett

More than once, I've been asked, "Why do you write?" I've usually answered with a trite response, so trite that, fortunately, I can't remember what I said. Today, while hiking in the Belmont hills, I asked myself the same question, and as I walked I spoke to myself and...

The Twentieth century British writer and theologian C.S. Lewis once wrote, "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point." I think of his quote often and never more than while I was writing Thorns in a Realm of Roses and Th...

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, so it stands to reason that I would have an obsession with all things having to do with England, especially its literature and history, right? After all, there's an obvious correlation between growing up in an uneducated, mostly Italian...

Thankfully, it's over.

Or is it?

Will Donald Trump and his legion of followers (I can't bring myself to write "supporters" for a supporter implies one who is intelligent, as opposed to one who follows--as do sheep) "go gentle into that good night"? Or will they "rage, ra...

He never heard the word "No" as a baby or a boy. He groped his first woman when he was just a toddler. He made his first racist comment when he was in preschool, and he first dreamed of cheating the I.R.S. before entering grade school. He is the worst man-child in the...

Though it may be unprecedented in American history that Donald Trump is considering giving his family members national security clearance while they run his business, it is not unprecedented historically. Now that Donald Trump is president-elect, are we about to witnes...

Why do I feel the door to hell has opened, and we, as a nation, have fallen into its abyss? It must be because Donald Trump won the the election and will become the 45th president of the Regressive States of America. I know I am not alone in believing that with his nom...

Donald Trump failed his first test. I refer to the protests occurring throughout the country in response to his nomination. He responded to these protests on twitter, writing that the protesters were "incited by the media. Very unfair."

To explain why he failed, I will...

The unimaginable has happened. Donald Trump has been elected as the next president of the Divided States of America. Given the once unimaginable likelihood of that ever happening, is it not then imaginable to think he will not survive his entire term as president? That...

I didn't sleep last night. As I was lying in the dark, thinking of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, I felt like I had fallen into an abyss. I turned on the light and began writing several different blogs, none of which I finished. I resigned myself the r...