Here’s what really bothers me as I follow impeachment, the Senate trial, and other political shenanigans in Washington, DC, right now: Aren’t any of these people protecting Trump thinking about their legacies? Make no mistake about it: Even if Trump … Continue reading
World War II cast a long shadow, and my generation was born in the aftermath. Then the shadow burgeoned into a decades-long frenzy of terror of communism. The Soviet Union was the incarnation of evil, of course, and war was … Continue reading
See, there’s a part of me that mourns that THIS is the question that pops up like a jack in the box. The country I was born in – the one that doesn’t exist in atlases any more – was … Continue reading
I want a care robot for my old age. I don’t mean those fake animals and devices that coo at you to take your meds, like The New York Times wrote about recently. Those sound patronizing and highly annoying. What … Continue reading
There are some very big subjects that our lives centre around right now in Australia. I don’t want to talk about them. They’re full of difficulty and emotion and… it’s exhausting even thinking about them, to be honest. I can’t … Continue reading
What happened to music? Yeah, I know I am entering the full ‘get off my lawn’ curmudgeonly territory – but honestly – I can’t say I remember many songs from this millennium. Or from some ten years before, actually. It … Continue reading
It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so despite the fact that I have a long list of things for which I am very definitely not grateful, I feel some obligation to find something for which I can be thankful. I’m … Continue reading
You’ve all been here. You’ve ALL been here. You have a particular piece of software that you LIKE, that does the job that you need it to do, that functions perfectly, that you are used to, that you can actually … Continue reading
Right now I want to write about politics and bushfires. Both are very bad in Australia. The thing is, I live in the national capital and there is smoke in the air. That makes politics and bushfires my everyday. A … Continue reading
What is the most important thing in a story? That it contains characters that you can identify with, people who look like you, see the world like you? For far too many readers, that is what they expect from any … Continue reading
