
From the Oort Cloud
We’re all surrounded by a cloud of vocabulary. The words you know well, that you use daily, float nearby, coming easily to the hand. This
We’re all surrounded by a cloud of vocabulary. The words you know well, that you use daily, float nearby, coming easily to the hand. This
As I commented in the previous installment of this series, my first novel was also my first experience trying to create a fantasy world from
Ah, but what if it hadn’t been “James Bond”? What if the name Ian Fleming gave his super spy had been “Crane, Ichabod Crane?” Clearly,
As regular readers of my articles know, I have a bit of an issue with the way that people—especially highly public and influential people—use and
Most people know what a ’meme’ is. The dictionary definition is: “an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to
Let’s write a reality check. Not all that long ago I repeatedly heard that the unemployment rate in the US was not 4.9 percent as
I’d be willing to bet that most people have had the experience of reading a headline in a news article (or media chyron) only to
Over the course of doing research, I ran across a fascinating fact about one of the most common casual expressions in use in modern times—“okay”.