Craig Maciolek

  • Competition

    Two early birds fight over a worm in the dewy morning grass.The birds, so engaged in their battle,do not see the house cat sneaking through the shrubs. Continue reading

  • Crystal Ball

    If there are people still alive thousands of years from now, their archeologists and geologists will be able to date finds of this era by of the layer of microplastic that has coated the Earth like volcanic ash. Continue reading

  • Adapting To Virtual Reality

    Are we making technology that undermines our long term ability to even make/repair that technology? Calculators reduce the need to know math. Thus, fewer people know and can do the math required to make calculators. If the calculators are then… Continue reading

  • How It Works

    There was a place that had really good coffee.The coffee sales rep came,convinced them to use more coffee,and now I can’t get a good cup anywhere. Continue reading

  • Who vs What

    My sermon to graduates. Once again, in this time of graduations I am compelled to think about self-image, or self-esteem, and how it impacts the world around us. Most graduates have an image in their heads of “what they want… Continue reading

  • The Hidden Evolutionary Trait

    The hard cold truth about evolution is that it is far too complicated, and happens far too slowly for us to see in real time. We can only see it and understand it after the fact. When we can compress… Continue reading