THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t… Read More ›
Writing
Zakaria a plagiarist? You be the judge
Back in 2012 when Fareed Zakaria was caught quoting another author’s work without attribution (commonly referred to as plagiarism), his employers investigated and, for the most part, let him off the hook. After all, he did apologize. Now it seems those… Read More ›
ISIS or ISIL, they’re still just terrorists
I was finally able to remember that ISIS, the jihadist group that’s rolling through Iraq now, stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Learned it well enough to type it without having to look it up every time (don’t count just now,… Read More ›
Crimea and the Clancy coincidence
Shades of Tom Clancy. The Russian Navy. The Cold War. The Cuban missile crisis. Putin. Ukraine. Sochi. Russian invasion. All running through my head this afternoon. Déjà vu, etc. Reports vary, but it appears the Russians may have invaded Crimea,… Read More ›
Clancy’s inspiration for the Red October music/singing
I’ve no idea how the subject came up a few days ago when I was talking with my son. But suddenly he was telling me what Tom Clancy had told him a few years ago*: In the movie The Hunt… Read More ›
LiveScience confuses facts in Colorado flood story
Until now I’ve had confidence in the online journal LiveScience. But a story I read there yesterday has left me with some serious doubts. It has several errors in it, which probably wouldn’t be noticed by anyone unfamiliar with Colorado’s Front… Read More ›
Brinkmanship or brinksmanship?
I heard it on TV again this morning. Someone said “brinkmanship.” In the same conversation, I also heard “brinksmanship.” That’s been the case for a month or so whenever media types are discussing the antics in Washington, and I’ve been… Read More ›
Becoming Tom Clancy: My letters from Tom – Part 4 of 4
Tom Clancy, self-described “boy writer,” recounts his life immediately before and after the publication of his first novel, “The Hunt for Red October.”
