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22 Mar, 2021

this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson: A Review

2021-03-22T20:05:46+00:00March 22nd, 2021|

Five Stars This year, I made a commitment to ditch my normal reading diet and pursue more exotic treasures. Sarah Wilson’s this one wild and precious life was a fit beginning. I finished a month ago, but I decided to [...]

21 Mar, 2021

World Poetry Day: A Mother’s Garden

2021-03-21T18:12:44+00:00March 21st, 2021|

Mother’s garden, secret and circumscribed, grooms the smell of well-trodden moss to cloak the moonscaped sliver of silver beds. Scents of life teem with rotted death and swell.   Immortal in what is left, impervious to the fleeting beat of [...]

20 Mar, 2021

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: A Review

2021-03-20T21:51:41+00:00March 20th, 2021|

Bill Gates comes to this issue with down-to-earth prose and common sense solutions. As someone who grew up in the 1970's when we first began REALLY talking about climate issues, his references to that time period should serve as a [...]

17 Jun, 2020

If we don’t stand up for justice, then we will fall.

2020-06-17T21:28:56+00:00June 17th, 2020|

Should law and order trump protest and civil unrest? What about justice? The question unsettles me. It unsettled me when I was a very small girl in 1968, but I know a lot more now. Still…it feels a bit like [...]

13 Apr, 2020

Reviewing the World of Sociopaths and Psychopaths

2020-04-13T17:29:51+00:00April 13th, 2020|

Snakes in Suits grew out of the authors “growing realization that the lack of specific knowledge about what constitutes psychopathic manipulation and deceit among businesspeople was the corporate con’s key to success.” Accordingly, the authors’ premise is “psychopaths do work [...]

6 Apr, 2020

2020-04-06T18:31:26+00:00April 6th, 2020|

3 out of 5 stars This was an interesting read with some clear insight into the problems behind big data that I think most people intuit exists. I especially found his theory that individual "reputation" is controlled and harmed by [...]

29 Oct, 2019

Where the Train No Longer Runs: A Flash Fiction Ghost Story

2019-10-29T18:35:57+00:00October 29th, 2019|

Ashley Pemberly stood at the door looking barely a day older than the day Sarah Goodsen watched her descend the front stairs and walk out of her life for good. That was twenty years ago, but there had rarely been [...]

16 Oct, 2019

Was Columbus a Psychopath?

2019-10-16T00:06:06+00:00October 16th, 2019|

Why bother addressing the question the day after his day? Or after Indigenous People's Day? Why bother? Why bother understanding the story? Or ourselves for that matter. After all, it’s history. Shouldn’t our history, our stories, remain in the past. It [...]

1 Oct, 2019

Writing About Existential Questions and Radical Hope

2019-10-01T21:44:34+00:00October 1st, 2019|

Writing books is always thought provoking. The human condition does not easily lend itself to words. I have been missing in action. MIA. Sidelined by research, writing, and editing. Novel #2—the first in a trilogy—is done for now. A speculative [...]

4 Nov, 2018

The Hills of Heroes: Vercingetorix

2018-11-04T01:40:54+00:00November 4th, 2018|

The Massif Central. An ancient landscape. To stand in its embrace is to experience the soul of France. In its heart, the Chaine des Puys is a line of 80 dormant volcanoes that run along a north-south axis. The capital [...]

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