So Hillary Clinton suffered a bout of pneumonia on the campaign trail. This happens. As has been pointed out, Jimmy Carter got so sick during his own run for the Presidency, during a schedule of almost non-stop handshaking, hustling to keep schedules, long speeches, airplane travel, and kissing those virus incubators known as babies, that […]
Look. If you’re not a particular comic book fan, I’m going to cut through the initial confusion in record time, giving you the bottom line without miring down in endless recapping of storylines that are better on the printed page. In the comic book world, there are two separate characters named Nick Fury. They have […]
Originally published in somewhat different form on Facebook, 19 February 2014. Something I’ve discovered as a professional writer, with my own very small claim to fame: The folks who come up to me with “a stack” of books to sign are generally not interested in my writing, but in creating items to sell. Frankly — […]