As the story goes, when I was a very little girl, I marched over to grandmother as she relaxed in her easy chair, and lifted her water glass off the side table. I took a sloppy, toddler swig. And then my face scrunched up at the...
Read MoreIt Took a Global Pandemic Amazing how our world, our countries, our home life has been impacted by a teeny-tiny little bundle of RNA. And difficult to fathom the accelerating rate of this impact. It Was Just a News Story, On...
Read MoreInteresting. History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th century Crusaders...
Read Morefound yourself trying to explain why your antagonist has their own playlist?
Read MoreMarcus Aurelius Was Multi-Talented Today marks what would have been Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius’ 1898th birthday. That’s after some minor adjustment for a little Julian calendar anomaly hundreds of...
Read MoreMy friend. Once, she lost a loved one. We mourned, we cried, we laughed at the wrong things. Or maybe the right things. She didn’t feel well. We met and drank coffee and Pepsi and solved the world’s problems and...
Read MoreToday, April 12th, is the birth anniversary of Tom Clancy. Tom Clancy was once a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Then he wrote The Hunt for Red October, which catapulted onto the New York...
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… the most important tool in our craft can’t be bought. Like Robert, we create magic with paper.
Read MoreI keep a notebook. A few notebooks. Well, several notebooks. I have them in my car, my handbag, my work bag, my gym bag. My notebooks live on my desk and various horizontal surfaces . And on my notebook shelf, too. I review my...
Read MoreToday, January 25th, marks the birthdate of some highly regarded writers. Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (5 Jan 1950 – 28 Sep 2016) saw her debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, (1982) win critical acclaim and become an...
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius Today is the...
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