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SCENE:  [A Subcommittee hearing room in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.  The Subcommittee on Violence Against Women is just coming to order.  On the Subcommittee are seven women senators, […]

What is it about science fiction that makes those of us who like to read and/or watch it (and would otherwise be described as nerds) actually pick up a sci-fi […]

Do you remember from high school algebra (or even junior high algebra) how you learned about positive numbers and negative numbers?  I do.  In that class my first-year algebra teacher drew a […]

I’ve been watching the Agatha Christie Poirot novels that  have been televised by PBS over the last several years, and I’ve been struck by one rather odd aspect of the character of Hercule Poirot.  […]

I like to write and read science fiction.  Not fantasy, mind you, nor horror or steampunk or alternate history or many of the other subdivisions into which the genre is currently […]

I’ve noticed over the past several years of trying to get stories published (I’m speaking of fiction here) that there doesn’t seem to be a standard number of words that […]

As an unpublished writer, I’ve been (quite obviously) looking forward to seeing my writing in print, whether it’s just a story in a magazine or a full novel on the shelves of bookstores everywhere.  […]

Well, the new year is here.  Now what? I’m not one to make many new year’s resolutions and this year I haven’t made any of what could be called a real resolution.  […]

I’ve been struck over the years I’ve been working with the English language, with phrases of (usually) two words which together produce an unusual “click” or sound in my mind that isn’t […]

As an aspiring writer, I’m always plagued by the fear that I won’t be able to come up with another idea for a story.  That applies to either a short story […]

Have you ever heard of Walt Kelly?  He’s the artist/writer who gave us the comic strip “Pogo” back in the 1950’s through the ’70’s.  I’ve been a fan of his […]

I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately, mostly for a course in science fiction I’m taking, and I’ve become more and more aware of a very common grammatical construction that […]