Meandering Monday about Dreaming of Greener Grass

Quarantine. I wonder how many writers nowadays find their stories set in prison, or during some great cataclysm that makes people hole up in their basements? Do you? (If you’re just consuming content instead, try to stay away from networks that have decided now is the time to show plague marathons, or shows like A … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Complexities, Compromising, & Coronavirus

There is no perfect answer to how we deal with the Wuhan Coronavirus. You don’t want people to die, but we (in the U.S.) lose tens of thousands to influenza each flu season (this last one was fairly light – around 18,000 deaths; usually we’re looking at 30,000 or so – just for perspective.) You … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Who You REALLY Know

I was having a conversation with someone from one of the younger generations (that would be just about anyone, wouldn’t it) and we were talking about friends, and what that means these days. There are people you know in the REAL world – people you’ve actually seen in public. Maybe you work with them, or … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Embarrassing Appearances

More tales about Bill “in his yute…” (well, more yute than I have now, at least) It helps to have someone there when you aren’t feeling well and have to go to the doctor or to the hospital – to act as an advocate and also help you organize your thoughts. Throughout our married life … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Whether I’m Really That Old

**Drat! I thought I set this post up last night for Monday morning, but instead I set it for Tuesday. Correcting now – sorry it’s late (Guess I AM that old…) Halloween is a big deal to us. A week into October we do up the house with lights on the roof and down the … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Seeking Truth Instead of Accepting Things from Thugs

I’m a pretty level individual. That is different from balanced, as many people who know me will tell you. I don’t generally allow my emotions to run amok, although I will let my thoughts go on flights of fancy and sometimes lose track of reality. Like that time when I was heavily into Dungeons & Dragons … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Misleading Words

Sorry, but I have to go a little political today. There are things more important than whether I sell books… It’s about the Narrative; the BIG LIE is in play in America. It’s like 1984. I watch the news and see stories told in opposition to the facts, and those distortions are repeated over and … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about What We Really Know

We do our best to understand the world around us. Assuming our understanding is true, our thoughts are happening inside our skulls, pretty much isolated from everything else. We rely on information coming to us from outside… of whatever it is we think we are on the inside. We have to trust that information, but … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Showing the World Honestly

I deal in fictions – that means that I make my living (well, WOULD be making my living if I was selling any of them) by lying. When I put it that way, I suppose I should feel bad about it, but I don’t represent my stories as though they’re something that really happened. In … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Euphemisms

I hate euphemisms. Euphemisms are words and phrases we choose to employ instead of what we really mean. We either choose to replace the proper word through some idea that there are some things we shouldn’t say in “polite” company, or we are brow-beaten into accepting the replacement for political correctness. Some euphemisms are more … Continue reading →