We humans take our innocent animals for granted unless they are our close personal pets. We like our pets when they listen and obey us and do tricks to entertain us. But how often do we consider what these innocent animals want? What makes them happy to fulfill their natural instincts? How are we being good caretakers?

People look for love, acceptance, companionship and romance but too often what they find falls very short of their expectations or imagination that was implanted by social and cultural norms and media hype. Too often what people seeking other people find are vampires and werewolves disguised as humans. Vampire women illustrates the situations, principles, disappointments and lessons guys (and gals) may eventually stumble upon during their journeys to find love in all the wrong selections.

Americans swelled with unity and pride upon defeating its enemies during the Second World War. Since that time, our society has become more divisive and bifurcated along socioeconomic, racial and gender paths. The middle class that grew during the past two generations has quickly eroded and its survival seriously threatened. Our children face a dubious future in a highly competitive world that has been largely built by U.S. corporations who outsourced the heart of American manufacturing know how. What must we do to stop this skid?

Have you heard of the children's story about ten blindfolded people feeling on different parts of an elephant and each developing a different story of their personal realities? Do you notice that people see and hear the same instructor or television news program but come away with different perspectives and conclusions? Show ten people a white sheet of paper and ask them to describe it in detail and you will have varied results because everyone sees the realities that they want to see and it may not reflect true realities. Can we get to what is real versus imaginary in how we deal with our...

The belief in superior beings from the heavens is as old as ancient human civilizations. These beliefs became codified into religious doctrines that set standards of beliefs and behaviors for the vast majority of humanity living today. Each religion lays claims to their unilateral righteousness and truths to the exclusion of other religious dogmas. The consequence has been widespread religious strife over the ages. Who is this God that over half the world's peoples pray to and trust? Has anyone seen this unknown God?

All people are products of their genetic tendencies as modified through their experiences in their environments. People learn culture and social norms through institutional conditioning by parents, schools, media and government. Social norms cause people to seek external validation through social interactions and expectations through which they define the value of others and their own self-worth. Social conditioning "boxes" allows people to define their niche and place in society as categorized by government and stereotypes perpetuated by mass media and group thinkers. Consequently people see...

Chinese laborers came to America to find gold and to work on the railroads, then they were expected to return to China. Some stayed in America and set roots, attended college, served in the U.S. military and attempted to be accepted as full fledged patriots instead of being stereotyped as Chinamen. This is a story about one Chinese boy experiencing American society in his journey to be accepted.