Earlier in the week, I was watching season 1 of the TV series Picard. In episode 3, we meet Cristóbal Rios, the captain of a ship that Jean-Luc Picard hires to take him on a trip to find cyberneticist Bruce Maddox and an android named Dahj. Cristóbal Rios appears to […]
Textual Creations
In today’s blog post, I will share a few tidbits about my former website and some recent happenings. Reclaimed Textual Creations Domain You may recall that I closed my Textual Creations business back in 2024, or thereabouts, and gave up my website domain address. To my horror, some unsavory “people” […]
Donald B. Cheke — An AI Interpretation
Today’s blog post was inspired by thoughts about my life and what that might look like to someone looking in from the outside. As I considered this, I thought about ego and its ramifications, and about the changing landscape as I age. These days, I spend considerable time reviewing my […]
When the Towers Came Down
It is hard to imagine that 25 years have passed since terrorists attacked the United States by hijacking four airliners and crashing them into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — the last of those airliners […]
Eldercare – Part 4
On July 30, 2026, I received a telephone call from a staff member at St. Volodymyr Villa letting me know that they had a suite available in The Terrace for my mom, and that it would be ready for her to move in on August 15. This, of course, was […]
What Would DeeDee Do?
The other day I was about to put a glass and a spoon in the sink, like any “bachelor” might do, when I said to myself, “What would DeeDee do?” With that thought, I opened the dishwasher instead and placed the items in there. After all, the dishwasher is right […]