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When Things Break

I’m old. That’s a given. Okay, so mom says I’m now middle aged. But she’s 87 almost 88 so, you know? She might be somewhat biased.

But here’s the thing, I know all the things that don’t work on writing and publishing, at least the traditional version of those, but like everyone else, I kept deluding myself that other fields worked fine.

You kind of have to, if you want to sleep at night.

Only it’s become more and more obvious that other things don’t work either. Take academia and sc...

Meme-Hectic

I’m desperately trying to work, not that successfully she adds, but I MUST finish novella in Shifters world today, if I want it proof-read at all.

Bring Back That Wonder Feeling- A Blast From The Past From March 2012

Bring Back That Wonder Feeling- A Blast From The Past From March 2012

Over the last few years I’ve taken part in more than a dozen panels in science fiction conventions where the question came up “Why is there no sense of wonder in science fiction?”  Or “Where have all the young people gone?  Why aren’t they reading science fiction?”

The excuses are always the same.  The foremost and most favorite is “The age of wonder in SF is between 12 and 14.”  The second is “They’re living in a sc...

Them Over There

While Heinlein was correct that those who don’t know history have no past and no future, knowing history is not enough. In some cases, it might be worse.

While travel is generally believed to broaden the mind, travel by itself is not sufficient, or even particularly helpful, depending on what you’re doing.

Both of the recommendations are designed to give you patterns of what could happen that you haven’t lived through; and patterns of how people live who aren’t you.

The problem is t...

Doing the Arithmetic

I’m digit-dyslexic. I’m word dyslexic, too, mind you. But words, though I can sometimes spell them very weirdly — like by phorgetting the letter f exists — I can usually figure it out the next day and sometimes spell checker can.

While with numbers, 365 is the same as 563 as 635. This means that no one should trust me to cut a piece of wood. And that when I was doing flooring in houses past, I often made paper patterns of the piece I needed, as though I were making a dress. Because that w...

In vain I Have Struggled….

To write a post. But there are ADD squirrels in my head just now, and I can’t. Also, things going on. Not bad things, just busy.

So….

Post tomorrow.

And because I know you guys:

Finding Ways

We don’t have access to the paths of power, the official support, the institutions, the easy money, the wealthy supporters.

That’s the bad news. The other bad news is that those things are all corrupt and extensively corroded. This is bad news for society as a whole, even if we’re locked outside it.

Look, one thing is for the hand that has money and power to tilt slightly in favor of the still more or less good performers but ideologically balanced to the left. That I understand is wh...

Book Promo and Vignettes by by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

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I’m okay

Sorry. Was going to post, but woke up with a migraine-ish, then decided it was the excess cat hair causing it, so have been cleaning.

It’s that sort of day.

You Get NOTHING

The problem with the struggles of our day: minimum wage; universal health; the perfect family; the perfect marriage; the perfect career is that people have forgotten that nothing is always an option.

No, seriously. Let’s take minimum wage for a spin on this.

People keep gabbing on about the “minimum wage” and “a living wage” as if the only reason people aren’t paid whatever it is they hanker for is the infinite greed of infinitely evil “capitalists.” I mean, I’ve seen them rage on line...