and so it begins: I have been given leave in 2018/19 to write this book for Camden House. Beyond Tomorrow. German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centurywill make a major intervention in German Studies and a significant contribution to debates in Futures Studies and...
To me, it’s a reminder that everything in life is transient and an illusion. We think we know, but we don’t know. We think we don’t know, but we know. What we have, may be a loss; and what we lost, may be a gain. Everything is temporal. All things shall one day pass...
I cook a lot, bake some, walk regularly, drink a lot of coffee, enjoy social media, play fantasy football, dabble in theater, advocate for the arts and am fighting my damned procrastination gene by seriously trying to write the books within me. Then that yearbook picture surfaced. And th...
The New Yorker provided encouragement and an outlet for nonacademic authority to flourish; it was a place where all those serious amateurs could write about the Dead Sea Scrolls or geology or medicine or nuclear war with no credentials other than their own ability to observe closely, think clear...
After a Southwest employee spoke into the microphone by the gate, I approached her. When I identified my deafness, she gestured to a piece of paper to ask if I wanted her to write. I told her I read lips and she could pull down her mask, which she did. ...
As I was sitting in the living room looking through old photo albums while my mom sat on the couch reading a book, I was twirling my hair round and round my fingers, over and over, for a substantial amount of time. I do this after I blow dry my hair to reduce the frizzyness and...
But enough of pluggingCyrano, My Love(although seriously, you should see it). What I really want to write about here is my love of stories about telling stories, stories about stories, and stories about the magic of stories and books. Two examples that I’ve already written about are Carl...
Wait… you just said don’t agonize over what to write in a sympathy card!!! Well, I mean that. But there are some phrases and sentiments that many (including me) have used that we now know are just not helpful. When you know better, you do better. So… ...
I wanted to write about it without being too dramatic, as my god daughter would say. But I think skipping emotions from being part of the writing would be difficult, as part of this move was because of a surge of emotions that has been bottled inside—something similar to “Waiting to ...
I also write on a laptop, listen to music and the news, and do almost everything on a computer. I have a lightweight laptop, which I thought would be perfect. However, after surgery, I had a great deal of difficulty handling it as it was slippery, and when I tried to use my ...