Everyone who has ever lived has lived in their own present day and every present day has its challenges. We have no choice but to face up to ours.
A Journey To โLasagnaโ Italy
I have no idea how much the novelโs author - whom I had never heard of before - actually knew about Italy when she wrote a book set in Italy.
For Only Men
For most of us recalling the history of, say, the "1800s" is not that important on a daily basis. In comparison, it is absolutely critical that those empowered by us to decide our laws are able to do so. Therefore it is downright scary when laws are suggested or interpreted today based on an inaccurate and/or incomplete knowledge of our past.
The Ongoing Menace
Removing abortion rights is but an interim goal to serve as a means toward achieving a much broader social and political end.
โShall we never return home?โ
As we disturbingly see, day in and day out, this world NEVER leaves us without new material.
The Moan Of The Privileged
Being an author, white, a man, and in that general "older" age group now, I would like to point this out.
My โTop Threeโ (Of Both)
As a man, I do not believe another male author who claims to have written a woman character out of โthin airโโฆ
The Family Perspective
The other day I had also seen an Instagram post by a writer in which she discusses her parents as parental inspirations for two of her characters. My parents โ especially my late mother โ particularly on my mind due also to the names of the house sellers, seeing her post got me thinking. Parents, eh?
What I Have Never Done And I Will Never Do
I would NEVER even attempt to guess at what โall readersโ expect as they open a new book.
Red, White, And Blue
Even as I finished writing this, I still had had no title in mind for this post. Then one moments ago hit me. Poppies are โredโ and both the U.S.A. and Russia have flags of โred, white, and blue.โ
Downtime
At a dinner Saturday night with a couple of friends, the wife in the couple asked from across the table if I have a new book in mind. In response, I was honest.
The โHyper-Online Fanโ Is Here To Stay
I feel that given a reader devotes their valuable time to and money on your tale that they do have a right to their opinion (even a bitter one) and you as the author must NEVER forget that...
A New Home
We had considered returning to Dorset. Always in the back of our minds, though, was the old line: โYou can never go back.โ So we thought it was best to try somewhere new.
Agathaโs Place
On Saturday we visited crime/mystery writer Agatha Christieโs (1890-1976) River Dart house in Greenway, Devon, not far from the port town of Dartmouth.
Fear Of History
The anti-โCritical race theoryโ carryings on is more proof too many whites in particular wish not to discuss and even to dismiss a past that was often undeniably savage and morally indefensible โ and yet many even living in that past, such as Thomas Jefferson, at the time themselves knew what they were living was both.