The Nation We Live In, a Collection of Essays and Short Stories

Remember that human interaction with voices, sound inflection, word emphasis, and friendly colloquialisms? Yea, that action called talking. Do you ever use it? Well, it seems to me, that talking, doesn't exist anymore. What happened? Within the general public, and in mid to larger to megacities, I've personally noticed, with the exception of required customer service jobs, people don't actually talk to each other anymore. It's kind of sad. Why is this perhaps the end of talking? Will talking make a comeback like the 1990's boy bands and dormant television sitcoms? I don't know, time will tell if the action of talking will return. Talking has been Missing in Action. Talking appears to have little upside. Society these days has too many feelings, insecurities, sexual harassment lawsuits, rules and societal issues for talking to be allowed. When people talk, the energy regardless of one's honest intentions is often misinterpreted.  One side of ...

I'm seeking a  LITERARY Agent or Publisher   that is willing to guide and work with me to get my 3rd book transcript officially and successfully published! I currently live and work in Austin, Texas. 512.657.9281 iphone, georgevance@gmail.com  Please email me for a 142-page working transcript, in which an almost majority of the book and chapters are written. Based on the literary online BLOG:  Liberating Rants. Here are some names and chapter topics: Is Freedom of Speech safe? The Modern Removal of the Confederacy, Peter Pan Syndrome, the Resistance, The Mental Reset Method, Are you Woke? Affordable Housing is a Myth, The Battle for your Attention, South Padre Island Times, the Nashville Experience, a Las Vegas Nevada Review.  Click here for the press release I sent to a list of Literary Agents & Agencies

Who gets your attention these days, whether deservedly or not? Is it the huge billboard adjacent to the busy road or highway? Is it your smartphone, or iPad? Is it cable, Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Roku or some other sort of Television programming? Face it folks, the world, marketers, friends, families and businesses are all striving and yearning for your attention. Why? Mainly because of the money. The bygone era of peaceful, non-digitally stimulating living and lifestyles may perhaps be over. There is a growing segment of society whom intrinsically wonder and would like to test living "off the grid." Do you currently live "off the grid". Would you ever consider living off the grid? If yes or maybe, how long of a duration do you honestly think you could make it sans digital, social media and entertainment? I predict it would challenging as hell for me, to completely abstain and go cold turkey on social media's constantly creating endorphin applications. The...

Long Live Abortion! From now until the death of humanity! Warning, if you are a conservative, republican, aging white male, on the tail end of your life; you might NOT enjoy reading this. My relatively youthful opinions on this subject like most folks are strong. I once aced a University of Texas undergraduate course containing this abortion topic with an A letter grade. The course was titled, "Contemporary Moral Problems." Yeehaw! From that now decades old course, our University professor taught us, pupils, that abortion pre-viable fetus in the mother's womb should be allowed . Pre-viable fetus means the organism is unable to live on it's own without the mother. Abortion with a living viable fetus should NOT be allowed. This occurs usually in the 3rd trimester of a woman's pregnancy. To reiterate post-viable fetus, abortion should NOT be allowed. It's pretty simple. This line of thinking, is to determine if the early life can survive on its own,...

Have you witnessed any 1960's and 1970's time period and hippie era culture resurrections lately? Why? Because I have. Since I myself was born in the year of 1981, I was never alive and able to with-hold the first-person experience of the actual flower power, peace proponents, fresh drugs, free love, Woodstock's music festival and feelings of actual hippie culture. Thus, in today's times, you and I, and all of us can only experience hippie culture when it is passed down, and like a turtle decides to poke its head out. An excellent example of a Hippie Culture Resurrection occurs in my hometown of Austin Texas. 1x a year in Pease Park circa downtown's 12th and Lamar Boulevard, a free and ALL welcoming daytime festival happens called Eeyore's birthday party. My actual hippie dad and his friends introduced me to it, as they have been attending it for decades. In essence, it's a day time party and freedom festival celebrating open-mind...

I adhere to  the "Make Me Move," or "Make Me Vacation" philosophy. My mini and lengthier vacations lean closer to being induced, rather than actually chosen. One morning last week, while eating at the lethargically ruined and now corporately Jeff Bezos owned  Whole Amazon Foods , I got an enticing notification from my email. For your Information, the general atmosphere nowadays in the Whole Foods organic grocery store, post corporate sellout is vacuous, soul-sucking and lame. There are also fewer people shopping in there too! Why? Customers don't want to put their money towards corporate greed. Back to the story, this specific email notification was from Airbnb . It was an offer to earn Half of a $Grand or $510.22 exactly to vacate and vacation rental my Clarksville 400 square foot Author's studio for 4 nights. Why was my rustic deficiency so wanted? This vacation Airbnb renter, we'll refer to as Luke, desired a place to crash in Aust...

Yep, that's right. This week I attended a full and long, yet perfectly beautiful day at the Dell Match Play Golf Tournament in Austin, Texas. The Tournament's setting was at the Austin Country Club. ACC's welcoming and spacious grounds made for a sporty, social and mid-week smile-inducing Thursday! Participating in the Dell Match Play Professional Golf event were the top 64 golfers in the world! No schlubs, just the elite cream of the professional golfer crop. These 64 top golfers represented an impressive variety of countries and cultures worldwide. Now, I know what your thinking, "George, I've watched Golf on Television and it's boring as heck. It can put me to sleep. What's the joy in watching professional golf?" Well, my friends, don't allow the television cameras and broadcasts to be your only microscope into life. Especially the naturistic and worthwhile sport known as professional golf. Actually being a permitted, ticket ca...