Some people can see love. They are called synaesthetes. They are few, very few, but they can see colors and shapes and animations for every word, every voice, every number, everything. “Peace” is a rainbow disk floating above a maple syrup sea. Your voice is vivid yellow with small, fiery rocks floating in…
Category: Writings
Blog posts by yours truly
The Decline of Critical Thinking and the Rise of Mass Opinion
Did you know that research shows that 64% of statistics are lies? Most people never give a thought to the perils of “credentialed” authors, the title “PhD”, or the phrase “research shows.” Joe Smith reads a magazine article about a recent social study promoting all-day child care as more beneficial than old-fashioned parenting and nods…
For Screen Junkie Writers
WriterKata.com is a website I happened to stumble upon the other day. Taking you through short but escalating exercises, it tones your writing muscles in the same way push-ups tone the abdominals. Each section of exercises forms a kata cycle. The first part of the cycle throws sentence challenges at you, such as: “Write a…
That Lady – she makes me cry.
In China town, shops are filled with cheap odds and ends. Lucky cats wave you in and out of store after store as you buy more and more. Today I was hit with a sadness. That Lady – the one in the shop – the one with the frizzy, thinning hair and the pasty face….