First, While it is vitally important to be vigilant around your children, and to exercise veto power over their treats, and while nobody diminishes the importance of that, the old scare-story about the razor blades in the apples is pure fiction. It has never happened, not even once, not in all these years of parents […]
Originally published on Facebook 10 October 2014 Here’s a secret. All fiction writers have limitations. All good fiction writers are acutely aware of their limitations. All good fiction writers are therefore constantly working on ways to hide those limitations, to distract you from them, to wave their hands so that you don’t notice them. And, […]
Of late I’ve been spending more time in the public library than my usual pickup-and-dropoff because of temporary internet connectivity problems at home, since fixed, and it seems that while they lasted I could not spend more than five minutes at a workstation without some total stranger demanding to know what I think of Donald […]