What Do I Know?

[Video excerpted from speech to National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983.   Full speech available here.] While Reagan was disti...

  From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare , a book of essays that chews on topics from old age to writing.  In "It Doesn't Have t...

 I put together a picture/story book for my granddaughter when she turned two.  I intended to have one for my grandson when he turned two.  ...

I used to think that imaginative fiction writers (especially science-fiction) were the ones who thought up new ideas and possibilities that ...

[I'm thinking out loud here, trying to bring disparate thoughts together.  Bear with me.] It's not at all clear to me the costs an...

It's two months before the election in the not-to-distant future.  She had three more days to take the voting test.  She'd looked on...

Back in November 2010 we went to see and hear something called Arctic Entries - seven story tellers each with seven minutes to tell their st...

This is one powerful short story. From Thought Catalogue's post on two sentence short stories: I begin tucking him into bed and he ...

I'd heard from some programmers that The Drawer Boy was good.  The trailer looked promising and the fact that it was an adaptation of t...

Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights  seems to have understood the 'strangeness' that we are going t...

While in Seattle this last time, I got the pleasure of browsing the shelves at the Elliot Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill.  Here are some b...

Let's see.  The next step will be a call to have him removed from the US as an illegal alien. The New York Times is reporting that FB...

We went to the UCLA hazardous waste drop-off this morning and saw these guys actually painting this Beauty and the Beast billboard onto the ...

I suspect a Trump presidency would be worse than many imagine, and not as bad as some imagine.  After Bush v Gore I proposed that there be a...

That was the headline on the news article I submitted last night for my online class on Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens from the Univ...