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April 24, 2013
What good are trailers for novels? Beats me, but I had fun creating one.
March 18, 2013
“I’m tired of my human disguise.” My friend posted that line on Facebook last year. It led me to imagine, what if everyone felt that way? What if one day, none of us wore our human disguise to work, to school, to the coffee shop? And, what if, where ever we turned, not […]
May 20, 2012
A dozen vultures are cavorting (fighting) in the yard, waiting for the easy meal about to be delivered to them on the other side of the fence. It’ll be dog food, by my guess-that’s what my neighbor feeds the deer. A hundred deer (not an exaggeration) used to denude the lawn and turn bushes to […]
February 25, 2012
I recently read a novel that hit a discordant note, or two, with me. Once that tone was struck, I found myself super sensitive towards any hint of author agenda. The story, which had once been interesting, fell flat, smack into a long-winded tribulation of preachiness that sanded my teeth and I hated the rest […]
December 13, 2011
Interesting book: THINKING, FAST AND SLOW By Daniel Kahneman From the NY Times book review by Jim Holt, November 25, 2011: “There may be no experiencing self at all. Brain-scanning experiments by Rafael Malach and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, for instance, have shown that when subjects are absorbed in an experience, […]
September 27, 2011
Who doesn’t love a good tale? Could our brains simply be wired to respond to stories? Perhaps we’ve seen an evolutionary advantage to storytelling, but where do the stories come from? If the brain is circuitry and storage, is the mind our source for imagination? Thinking about this fascination we have with stories can bring […]
April 25, 2013
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