A HEARTFELT INTRODUCTION I want to tip my hat to the friend who introduced me to the science fiction writer, C. L. Moore. Settling down with any new artist always involves a series of questions. Is the author any good?  Will the book provide a new experience or idea? Will it take

THE ART OF STOPPING TIME Some time ago, I wrote a post about finding a ticket in a library book with a list of mystery stories checked out by another patron. Being unfamiliar with the authors, I started to explore their work.This week, I’ve begun with Anne Purser’s Ivy Beasley se

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THE GAME OF LIFE A friend of mine wrote a general announcement on her Facebook page that she was dropping out of all the games she’d been playing at the site. She wants to spend more time meditating and getting in touch with her life. One can sympathize with her ambition. Or is it a

SOME MILK FOR THOUGHT Learning about the history of words can be as fascinating as Robert Landon’s quest for truth in “The Da Vinci Code.”  Just as rumors and mythshave a life of their own, words do as well, changing with the advent of technology, religious precepts and politic

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WORDS OF THANKSGIVING As we approach the season of Thanksgiving, we might pause and give thanks for language. We take words for granted, but they are the means by which we connect our internal world with the external one. Through them we express both our emotions and our ideas. Our ad

MY DINNER WITH MARC The screen play for the 1981 film, “My Dinner with Andre,” written by the principle actors, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, is about a discussion the two men have one evening somewhere in New York where the topics range from experimental theatre to the

A THANK YOU TO MY CRITICS I recently finished writing a novelette that I asked 6 friends to critique. I don’t usually bother my friends with my work. I hire an editor. But this wasn’t a hefty piece and I wanted reactions from people who weren’t editors but liked to read. To my s