I met Noam Chomsky in graduate school.  I say “met” metaphorically.  His work was required reading for my degree.  He had an idea that language was natural to the human brain, then went about proving it with linguistics–an almost mathematical formulation of how languages

A writer on my social media page announced he’d published his first book, recently.  Overjoyed, he included a favorable comment from a well-known book review company.   “I’m a genius,” he concluded tongue in cheek.  Like a first kiss, his elation was understandable.  Who

Gone fishing for the day.  Celebrating 13 years of blogging and 12 years of Just Read It video book interviews. I’m back next week.  Thank you, readers!

“I still don’t have what I want,” says Rita Moreno, star of stage, screen, and television and also a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Oscar, and a Kennedy Center Honor recipient. (“The Queen,” by Erik Maza, Town&Country, March 2022, pg. 84.) I understood w

Who reads this blog? This May will begin “Write Away’s” twelfth year, so I’m curious about its audience.  Some subscribers have been with me almost the full time.  The site has never gone viral but its readers seem to be loyal. Few have unsubscribed while visitor numbers gro

Starting this month these WriteAway blogs will appear on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. These almost 10 years of daily blogging have been a great joy for me but it’s time to slow down.  My thanks to all the readers of this page.  Many of you have been with me a long, long time.