Reading Time: 2 minutes – WRITING LIFE – “When are you going to do a book?” she asked. Some 23 years later, Howard Fielding’s “Living Here” column is moving toward print. Continue reading ‘Living Here’ — at a turning point
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – Schroedinger’s kitten has returned to lead us through further thought experiments, this time more sophisticated. Continue reading The Return of Schrödinger’s Kitty
Reading Time: 2 minutes – REVIEW – If you love a good mystery, ghost story, or history, Michael C. Dooling delivers all three in this slim volume. Continue reading ‘The Haunting on East 27th’
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -November is a rotten time to be attempting such a feat. It’s a short month, filled with distractions. During the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, for example, people who actually have lives might be living them. Continue reading NaNoWriMo wrap-up
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – Morrow crouched alongside the stretcher as the ambulance attendants splinted the woman’s leg. Still unconscious, she inhaled sharply in pain as they lifted her into the back of the ambulance. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – She bumped over an overgrown rail line, barely maintaining control of her scooter as its front tire got caught in the recesses of the crossing and started to follow the tracks, as if with a will of its own. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4
Reading Time: < 1 minute – ON WRITING – With about two-thirds of the words completed in three-quarters of the time allotted, I’m falling behind pace and it’s time to reassess whether it’s time to drop out of this year’s race. I do have a life to live, after all. Continue reading NaNoWriMo update: Day 21
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Something had happened, to her, anyway, but she was putting that behind her. Or was it still in front? With no landmarks, a useless map, not even the moon to orient her, she could be going in circles. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself. Continue reading NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway there
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – As we pick our words and our apples, we should remember that they can become so much more when they inspire others to be creative. Continue reading How d’ya you like them apples?
