I embark on these monologues, soliloquies, sermons — take your pick — because some search engines use spiders, crawlers, content-investigation agents — take your pick — to sniff out and validate a web-site's use of keywords. You see, we who are in the web-site business bury keywords behind the scenes, inside the files containing our pages, to indicate what subjects those pages discuss. However, some search-engine designers don't trust that those keywords truly represent the web-site; after all, we could key such topics as "sex," "violence," and the "American Way" — you can probably envision other attention-grabbing words — when we're not writing about that stuff at all. So, these persnickety search-engines dispatch agents to compare the actual text on a page with the keywords attached to it, and if the page doesn't satisfy certain algorithms, well, then, they don't associate that page with those topics.

You can probably guess that a piece of fiction doesn't fare well under such scrutiny. I can say that the story on the page concerns discrimination or social disorder or playground design, but those words may not appear anywhere in the story, hence no entry in the search engine under those topics.

Therefore, I have launched this series of short diatribes — if you will — to satisfy these search engines. I'm hoping you won't mind clicking on another link to get to the story, whether or not you actually read the homily.

List of Homilies

1. Adventure Playground

2. Private Means Secret

3. Excused by Scripture