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Personal blog of Matt Mitchell, an author of modern-day fantasy and horror fiction.
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The Simple Life Manifesto [Ten Steps to a Simpler Life]
This article is a work in progress, or will be for a bit longer. Feel free to critique it, because I’m writing it for my company and I’m not really a specialist in this field, although I d...
The Truth about Spirit Animals
The spirit animal: is it a myth, or a misunderstood fact? Most of the information I can find on the internet can justifiably be categorized along with alien abductions and fortune tellers. Nobody real...
The Unknown Story of the Day
How many stories are there in a day? Every day, every one of us is a story. Some are boring, but some are fantastic. Every soul on Earth has its own story, set to the cadence of every heartbeat drummi...
The Hidden Value of Absurdly High Gas Prices
Automobiles have never been efficient, but they’ve always been economical. And that’s even more evident today than ever before. I remember when I was younger how common it was to see an ol...
Sleeping with Mother Earth
I’m a very good sleeper. My wife has observed that I can lie down in bed, squirm a bit while I wriggle into the Optimum Comfort Position, and then I can say, “Watch this,” and fall d...
The New South (I want my culture back)
I don’t really like the term “The New South” because it suggests progress, and as I drive around the South I don’t see a lot of progress. Economically, yes; the industrializati...
In a Million Years…
If science is right, the sun still has a good 5 billion years worth of fuel left to burn. At that point it’ll turn into a red giant and swallow Mercury and Venus, possibly Earth as well. So a mi...