I was interested in this article: “In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on the Republic“ (First of all, the idea that anybody, on any side of any “culture war” in the United States, is thinking, even for … Continue reading
I’m finding that I like to have a TV show to follow. I guess it’s a replacement for the weekly comic books that I no longer buy. Of course, I don’t have a TV, so it has to be on … Continue reading
I get the A.Word.A.Day emails every day, and yesterday’s was about “agathism,” which I thought was a coincidence since I had just talked about Agatha Christie in my last post, but it turns out the word is not related in … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting article: “Can ‘Distraction-Free’ Devices Change the Way We Write?“ Microsoft Word is a terrible tool for writing, because it’s not designed for it. It’s designed for corporate word processing (and, more recently, simple desktop publishing). It has … Continue reading
I am watching, and, so far, enjoying, the Amazon Prime adaptation of The Wheel of Time. I read the first book in the series a very long time ago, but I don’t remember much about it. The first two episodes … Continue reading
I’ve been writing down scenes and ideas as they occur to me, but so far nothing has coalesced for a new story. The other thing I’ve been doing is re-reading the first three stories in the current series (“The Marvel … Continue reading