The British And The Americans: Beginnings
An aside to put the era in some additional context. As the American rebellion was breaking out in 1775, in England one Jane Austen was born that same year and lived until 1817.
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The French And The Americans
Many of those looking your way across that huge ocean are as curious about you as you may be about them.
Read MoreThat Man On The Mountaintop
I will always fondly remember as well, as we built the house – which is on quite a hill – in the Catskills in 2008-09, my mother pulling me aside and joking, “Oh, you want a house on a mountain too, I see.”
Read More“My wife is going to read this…”
I have learned over the years that writing “sex” is tremendously difficult. The fundamental problem is trying to put sex into words: I write such scenes over and over…
Read More“Ammunition” For Debate
Even in our New York, with much stricter local gun ownership laws than Texas, I know quite a few of our rural Catskills neighbors are armed to the teeth. I use the term “neighbors” loosely because houses “nearby” are few and far between…
Read MoreIn The Manner Now Lost
If you be one on a far continent, unacquainted with such, and discovering even that our Google translator is inadequate in the face of this English such as I am employing now, you have my most sincerest of apologies…
Read MoreA Dopey Web Site Is The World’s Top Story
I’d forgive you for thinking: “But you’re in Britain? The BBC for news surely?” Well, honestly, now, not really any longer.
Read MoreTo Wish To Take Me Home
Seen in a field, beautiful daffodils are all pretty much indistinguishable from each other. Yet up close every daffodil is different. As is every reader.
Read More“Modernity” And Its Impacts
“Modernity” – its electricity, instant communications, machines, firepower, and medicines, including especially birth control – is what has been most responsible for the end of restrictive millennia-old roles allotted to women, and that process is ongoing.
Read More“Everyone has one novel in them?”
Within the guise of a lighthearted, self-interview, I explained what initially caused me in 2012 to decide to write my first novel.
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