Creating Interest

Yesterday was the 6-month anniversary of San's last breath, five hours after my children and I blessed her and bid her leave to go as sh...

I wrote a piece last year, “ Suggestive Pacing ,” about the way the style of telling a story seemed to fit the story. Cormack McCarthy’s Th...

I’ve recently been inside a couple of museums where a lot of imagination is evident. This is not the exception, mind you. I think most of th...

This is Sandra Bouman a year ago. I picked up a liking for calling her "San" from her lifelong friend, Maria Aquilina, who was he...

Oh, no, not another quote from the title song of "Oklahoma!" Don't worry. The title of today's blog is a take on a book ti...

"An" is a pesky word. People are afraid of sounding natural or appearing uncouth, so they stick "An" in front of a word...

Recently I finished reading a story that held my interest week after week, reading a half hour here, and hour or so there, until I got to t...