Michael F. Gray, Author

Independence, but from What?

I have to remind myself to feel grateful that I live in a country which has enshrined in its founding documents the ideals of...

I’m on the outside looking in when it comes to practicing any religious orthodoxy. I suppose I picked that up from my mother, who...

I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today. In fact, I was in the process of resigning myself to a new reality. After years...

I woke up this morning feeling unrested and anxious. That has been happening more often recently. I’m not sure which came first: a feeling...

Dwttiz would be called an anthropologist on Earth and belongs to the same long-lived species as Ahat, who has been the resident Adjudicator on...

For years now, the old conundrum of “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” has dangled the mystery of the universe before my...

Sometimes a feeling of resonance arises in the stream of time, linking the present moment with some distant or nearby memory. This resonance may...

I attended two Celebrations of Life this past week. The two people whose lives were celebrated, Pat and Kip, both lived lives which I...

When a friend passes on, we are likely to run into spaces in our thoughts and feelings where we realize that a touchstone is...

On the bus ride home from his weekly supper at the Rising Sun Café, he was only half listening to the sound of passing...