Skeptophilia

The connection between a spoken language and its written form, known as its orthography , is seldom straightforward. Much has been made of t...

Two days ago, I finished the draft of my historical novel Nightingale .  I checked the document to see when I created it -- October 21, 2025...

I have a great admiration for poets. They have an amazing way of collapsing a tremendous amount of punch into a small space.  The best poets...

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, the wonderful author K. D. McCrite.  (Do yourself a favor and check ...

British science historian James Burke has a way of packing a lot of meaning into a small space. I still recall the first time I watched his...

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...