What Trump’s Misogyny Really Says
This is long so I apologize for that. It's also a post that I hesitated to write because I'm very private person, and I'm telling you a lot about myself. But I think this election is just that important that I'm willing to open up. So here goes -- I’m younger than...
If You Can Keep It”
I recently posted on Facebook a link to a story out of Texas about students walking out of an anthropology class over the discussion that modern humans evolved in Africa. I got push back that this was unfair to Texas, on overblown story because only a small number of...
Drama Versus Reality
Reality is so damn unforgiving. I'm working on the third book of the IMPERIALS Saga, and one of my main character is the heir to the throne. Her aides aren't going to let her go into actual combat unless it's absolutely unavoidable, and she's not stupid enough to...
Too Little and Way Too Late
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Edmund Burke (1729-1797). I first heard this quote while watching a performance of the musical 1776. The representative...
Guarding the Ephemeral
A Man for All Seasons - Act One Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law! More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that! More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and...
Essential Writing Tools — The Hatchet
There's a saying in writing that you have to be able to "kill your babies". Which means that sometimes there is a scene or a character that you just love, but it has to go. It can't stay in the narrative. I've faced two of those in the past week. Both times, on...
It’s About The Theme, Stupid
Over the past two weeks I’ve seen two movies. STAR TREK: BEYOND and last night SUICIDE SQUAD. I only went to see the Trek film because I had been asked to do an interview about it. I had been actively looking forward to Suicide Squad. My reactions to both were...
An Armed Society is….Terrifying
I can't believe I'm writing about this again, but as I type three more police officers have been killed today. Three others are in the hospital. As the shooting was occurring the Baton Rouge police were putting out warnings about men armed with long guns -- _In a...
When Guns Replace Words
Over on Facebook I've been nattering on about horses and the World Science Fiction Convention because I truly cannot make sense of Dallas. Or perhaps it's all painfully obvious and understandable, and I'm trying to avoid facing it. We have a divided society with...
Enchanting New Mexico
I am so glad to be home. No moon, so the sky is like black crystal. The Milky Way looks like a gossamer shawl thrown over Heaven's shoulders. The longer I look the more stars seem to appear. There are the big, bold ones trying to see who can throw the most light, and...
