Note: I think this may go somewhere, so I’m going to keep writing. Do please let me know what you think. I write for you. If you need to catch up, search Lucinda for previous installments. Chapter 5 Lucinda stared at the guy. He had dropped his gaze and appeared mortified. “You’re . . . […]
There’s a series on PBS, “Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World” which tells the (purportedly) wonderful stories of innovators through time. It’s one of those glorifying paeans we see or read from time to time. One I remember well occurred in the late 1970s and early ’80s, about the computer and how its wonders […]
I do not remember my first bicycle with fondness. I was perhaps nine years old, living in Rawlins, Wyoming. My father showed up with it one day, quite out of the blue. It was huge, really quite too large for a kid. And it was heavy. I swear it was made of cast iron. Large […]
In the fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a ruler parades in front of his townsfolk nude, somehow having become convinced he is wearing elegant clothing. The people, not wishing to suffer his ire by telling him the truth, oooh and ahhh over his imaginary new outfit. It falls to a child, honest and unafraid, to […]
Part I If one needs to prove that popular attitudes toward writers has changed, taking a look back to the early 20th century when author bios on the book cover flap were rare if not absent, proves the point. Why? Because what mattered was between those covers: the storytelling. Rightly so, the public didn’t much […]
Thumbing his nose, literarily speaking, at mainstream archaeological academics, author and historian Graham Hancock posits that a meteor struck the earth between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. It was immense, and broke into so many destructive chunks and shards passing through the atmosphere , that it wrought planet-wide havoc, not only to the landscape and […]
Lucy pushed through the tall steel door into a room filled with warmth, light and music, all three embracing her in comfort. To the left were a few scattered tables and chairs facing the back wall and, she saw now, what appeared to be a bandstand but looked more like a very large sandbox. To […]