“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.” So says Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest. While Wilde was referring to the taboo literature of the time, this quote makes me think of the poorly written/edited books flooding the market today. There are so many of them that I’ve… Read More The Importance of Being . . . Critiqued
Kid: Mom, I’m hungry. Me: Oh. What time is it? 3? I’m sorry. Just grab a snack, and we’ll have an early dinner. Kid: What’s for dinner? Me: Oh. I don’t know. Chipotle sound good? This pretty much sums up every day of this summer. Just change the name of the fast food establishment. Don’t… Read More Summer Mom
I am a member of the Historical and Time Slip Novels Book Club, and several recent posts concerned historical authenticity in novels. Do writers of historical fiction have a responsibility to their readers to represent accurately that period of history they are writing about? The answer is yes, but, like the other members of the group, I have seen writers… Read More Guardians of the History
I recently cleaned out the cabinet into which I had sloughed the reams of paper that lined the years of my life. It took me nearly a week to sort it all. One, because there was so much to go through, and two, because it was the most melancholy sort of time machine imaginable. I was sucked into… Read More Trash and Poetry