culture

People are from Earth

I've been saying it for years, and I've been told that I'm talking nonsense. I've asserted that men and women are not two different species, we are not incomprehensible to each other, and if people would just talk a bit more and stop making stupid and sexist...

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I read blogs

Many, many blogs. Blogs with interesting articles. Articles that point to other interesting articles, and videos, and photos, and tweets, and comics, and all kinds of stuff. This is how I get the news.It's actually pretty efficient.Today I was pointed at an article...

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“I have a dream”

I was thinking recently on the books that really influenced me when I was younger. I generally don't count the books I enjoyed among them; we may all have liked the Famous Five, for example, but those kinds of books were throwaway for me, to be read and liked and then...

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A question of disbelief

So, I met with a few other writer friends today, and we got talking about characters in situations with which we, personally, might not be familiar. For example, I know nothing about New York. Hence, I know nothing about what life is like there, nor what trains run in...

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