The muse and I

The whole MUSE THING used to really bother me, and even now, I approach it carefully.

Since author Mark David Gerson talks a lot about muses, I finally said in a comment that I grew up hating the entire muse concept because it always involved frail personages who looked like they were dying of consumption floating around writers who looked fairly vacant and out of touch with the real world.

It was almost as though Mark David's point of view about this subject gave me "permission" to say, yes, ...