FRANKLYN C. THOMAS

Is it over? Are we sure? Okay, cool. I want to wish you all a happy 2021. Last year was brutal, but if you’re reading this then you...

Last month, I participated in NaNoWriMo for the fifth time. I entered this year with a different mentality and different goals than I had...

Hey all, how’s everybody doing? Looks like we made it to the final chapter of 2020, and as we close out this year that’s felt like a...

Okay, fellow wordsmiths! If you’re like me, then this is the moment you’ve been waiting for. NaNoWriMo is here! My fiancée and I are all...

It’s time for another Shakespearian mash-up! When Pocket, the fool from Dog Snogging, England, washes ashore in the Greek Isles, he and...

It’s absolutely okay—necessary, even—to exist in spaces that don’t normally include you. It’s how brick walls and glass ceilings get broken.

At times over the years, I have expressed awe for various members of my family, from the lessons instilled in me by my late father, to...

A few years back, I got to thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. I made them every year since I was 19. On New Year’s Eve, usually in...

The Yankees in the playoffs over the last 20 years has been the most reliable indicators of Fall for me, right up there with the changing...

Happy Fall, ladies and gents, and welcome to the 38th month of 2020. It’s not a stretch to say that this has been an odd year, and “odd”...

Right is right. Wrong is wrong. We expect adults in a cooperative society know the difference.

Any artistic endeavor that ends up for public consumption is up for public judgment. Will they love it? Will they hate it?

We’re told every year, “Never Forget.” We’re then shown footage of planes speeding into buildings. There’s more to remember.

Robogenesis drops us right back in a future world that seems just plausible enough to be terrifying.

Hey everybody, what’s up? As summer comes to an end, we approach the home stretch of this... rather unique year. I swear, if someone...

Two white-hot talents combine to form an iconic rock band in mid-1970’s California, with their meteoric rise to fame equaled only by how...

Hey everybody! Welcome back for a new month on the hit show, “Adventures in Quarantine!” As the COVID-19 outbreak rages on for a fifth...

We’ve spent the last four months in a veritable desert of boredom. The COVID-19 pandemic has eliminated most of our chief forms of...

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately, especially on social media. It’s a trend that is more distressing given the tumultuous times...

It’s amazing what people will endure for their children’s sake. Some will take on extra work at terrible jobs, working double and triple...