Without apology... Fire alarms should just play Nickelback. I left some Nickelback tickets on my dashboard. When I got back to my car,...

So, we’ve looked at how nerds are defined and seen by others. But what, in the mind of the nerds themselves, are the distinctions? How do...

He is first-generation grunge, from the trio that defined the genre. He was born in the Sixties, an age he still inhabits daily in his...

I came of age in the Seventies – and given my family background, there could not have been a more perfect time for it, where my musical...

Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...

Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...

The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...

In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...

While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...

ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...

Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...

During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...

I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...

One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...

It would be hard to overstate the impact of Star Trek’s David Gerrold on my writing career. If you’re reading this book at all, you’re...

It’s hard to convey to Millennials, let alone Zoomers, just what it was like growing up in a world where Star Trek was just a single TV...

It was 1968, I think. I’d have been seven years old. Kennedy’s quest for the moon was well underway, and as young as I was, it somehow...

A few moments ago, I found myself trying to read from a book with one hand and type with the other. This posture is non-optimal for...

It is a September Saturday morning, and my daughter has resumed her weekend dance class – and I, once again, have the happy duty of being...

We like to think our lives are defined by the Big Things that inhabit it. Our faith. Our convictions. Our politics. Our values. That’s an...