Well hello there. Yes, I know it’s been a spell since I have had anything on my blog and there’s a very good reason for that. My first novel,The Scheme of Things, will be published in about 2 months time. I have spent the last year editing and getting all the pieces into plac...
As the language learner, you might find learning language other than your mother tongue is a painstaking task to do. You start wondering how to absorb the language that you learnt immediately as you always want to speak like a native speaker. However, no matter how hard you try, or worse ...
In short, I agree with the Xena outlook (or whatever we're calling it). One of the upsides of D&D, to me, is that you get to a point where you play this uber hero who literally *can* take on the hordes of hell. Heck...pure D&D even had rules for how to become an immortal...
Now 78, fifty years out of Viet Nam, I am aghast that we are living through an even more virulent, Cold War. Cold War I propaganda cast an overwhelming toxic spell on the minds of three generations, including many intelligent people. Relentless rheto...
I travel. A lot. The last few years I make anywhere from 15 to 20 international trips a year. I get a lot of people asking me how I manage to do it; no, I’m not rich, and yes, I fund the majority of my own travel. In this post I tell you how I afford to travel so mu...
Do Penaluna and Moland even give them the time of day? Unfortunately, Aristotle and St. Thomas may actually not be the best inspirations for the advancement of philosophy; and all of these women were for some reason more or less under the spell of Ludwig Wittgenstein, especially Anscombe, ...