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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
You’re going to help.
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A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Category Archives: Splendor!
Love at first sight, twenty-five years later: Someone to thrive with.
I wrote this twenty years ago today, but it describes events that happened twenty-five years ago. You’ll figure it out… If you wonder what a gorgeous woman like that is doing with a schlub like me, I commend you to … Continue reading
My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.
My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were actual invited guests to the show … Continue reading
Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more, I’ve been stuck with a book … Continue reading
My three Trumps: Envisioning strategies leading to an exit strategy.
Start here: I am not a Trump fan-boy. Never was, and, while I haven’t written much here lately, you can follow my trajectory of Trump affination in these pages over the last five years. At first I feared what everyone … Continue reading
The way to beat Ci compliance displays is to rob them of their oxygen: Your compliance.
Thanks to Google, now even girls know how to shop for just what they want, ignoring everything else.I’ve vituperated a lot, lately, about Ci and its inverse, obverse photo-copy Ic. There’s a reason for that: We live in a Ci … Continue reading
Just in case you didn’t know: I like vigorously dominant sex with a smokin’ hot blonde.
Me and my smokin’ hot blonde wife. I try to give her good cause to look at me that way.That would be my wife, of course. I think every form of extra-marital sex is enduringly self-destructive. I have nothing to … Continue reading
Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading
An everyday perfect love.
“If you’re his favorite skateboard, he’s a crystal vase to you, a thing to be treasured forever or shattered in an instant’s rage.”This story first appeared in Sun City, but it’s also collected in Loving Cathleen, a book about building a … Continue reading
Why does the Deep State hate Donald #Trump? He’s taking their war profits – and your Gold Stars – away.
Why are these men smiling? Because they – and you – are no longer slaves to the Deep State’s perpetual war machine.I’ve been writing here and there about President Trump’s foreign policy since last fall, but if you don’t get it … Continue reading
A fast farewell to Greenhurst.
Got Yard Sale?We chapter our marriage in houses. That’s what comes of being in real estate – and being broke a lot. So far, we are Cochise, El Caminito and Greenhurst, the respective street names of our homes. Commencing tomorrow, … Continue reading
For the 20th anniversary of Bubba’s big reveal: Monica’s Song.
“I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story March 8, 1998 To be sung loud and fast, a sassy girl-group sound: VERSE: They say he’s a cruiser, a good-for-nothing user They tell me he’s a tar-pit … Continue reading
Want to send someone a greeting card with some oomph? Send a Willie book, instead.
I wrote a ton in 2017, lots of everything. Among other works, I published four new Willie books. They’re short – because I leave out all the boring stuff – but they’re cheap – because I want them to be … Continue reading
“Baby, it’s cold outside!” – and that’s when it’s the best time to be a mammal.
Nothing attracts like mutual attraction.Photo by: Kevin JohnstonMammalian empathy is evolution in action. Want proof? Turn off the heater before you go to bed tonight. If you are lucky enough to be happily enspoused, you’ll find a way to stay … Continue reading
When I say, “Who wants a handful of red hot Willie for the New Year?” – you say, “#MeToo!”
“Whose Festivus do you have to grab to get some laughs around here?”Cover illustration by the incomparableDonkeyHotey | Creative Commons.New for the New Year: Bubba: How the Predator-in-Chief pulled it off. What is it? Twenty years of brutal jokes – with songs! … Continue reading