My sometime student and terrific writer Kim Jollow Zimring has a great idea. (Inspired, by the way, by the legislator who opined that global warming was caused by wind farms, because the giant turbines stole the cooling breezes.) She suggested that everyone in this country be sentenced to Science Prison, and that the only way […]

I’ve been considering the proposition that maybe privacy is a mid- to late-Twentieth Century concept that’s already proving obsolete. Up until the 20th Century there wasn’t any privacy to be had, unless you were some kind of hermit that lived by himself in the wilderness far away from any civilization.  (And even some hermits wouldn’t […]

Hey writers!  The Clarion Writers’ Workshop is having their annual write-a-thon beginning June 23.  You write, and other folks pledge money depending on how much you write during the six-week period.  Everybody benefits, because you get something  written, and Clarion earns a few bucks.  Check it out! A few years ago, I attended Launchpad, the […]

Once again I’m watching scenes from one of my novels play out on television, and once again I’m finding it depressing. Deep State was a novel about a revolution against an oppressive Turkish government, and now we get to see that on CNN— and to watch Christine Amanpour try to corner a Turkish official about exactly […]