Oops, sorry. My grocery cart – the push-along container for food that old guys use as a walker – was blocking the way. They should have traffic rules and lanes in here! Can’t you move? says the white-haired lady, sixtyish, rushing. She gives me the evil eye. I smile. Sure, sorry. Wham, I hit a [...]
The gift of art, like that of silence, has the capacity to touch hidden yearnings for love and beauty and sadness and adventure, as well as the suppressed torments of anger and rage, bringing humanity in all its complexity to the surface.
Crepe Myrtle Such a beautiful fall, and it’s all about colors. Just look at the crepe myrtle tree in my front lawn! It shimmers because of color. I went back through a multitude of photos from my travels, and what jumps out, more than scenery, more than tourist attractions? Colors! Why are [...]
"Relevance is a malleable term." I had dinner last night with Sophia Lass; bless her sweet nature. Ricardo was lucky to have her as his lawyer in my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes. She begged me not to steal her thunder by divulging the outcome of her efforts. Fair enough. What a ravenous appetite she had, [...]
While some might insist that science is strictly factual, I think most would agree that speculation links discrete scientific data – facts – resulting in a narrative that becomes modified with additional data and knowledge. Speculation is not factual. In that sense, I view science as partly fact and partly story, and propose that reality [...]
My science colleagues asked me how I could switch from research to stories – from science to fiction and back again – as if the two activities were so different that the same person couldn’t do them both. My answer was usually, "I don't know. I just sit at my desk and start writing and [...]
