Due Process
A few days ago, Nevada District Court Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy “with prejudice,” meaning that Bundy and the two other defendants cannot be tried again on...
View ArticleA Glance at Romance
For those of you near Cedar City, this coming Saturday [January 20th], the Friends of the Sherratt Library – that’s the Southern Utah University library – will be hosting a Night at the Library where...
View ArticleJanuary Question
Stylistically, are there things you did that you’ve changed over time? Or things you wished you could change? All writers change over time, sometimes in significant ways, sometimes in very small ways....
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My fiction reading has been rather spotty over the past few months, since I’ve been working on the sequel to Outcasts of Order and also because more than few disruptions in my normal schedule have...
View ArticleReader Perceptions
One of the dangers of being a writer is that there’s a tendency for some people, thankfully usually a minority, to make all sorts of assumptions about you, based not even on what you write, but on what...
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Somehow, I missed an update on what I’ve been writing. In September I turned in Endgames, an Imager Portfolio novel that is the sequel to Assassin’s Price. Endgames is currently scheduled for a...
View ArticleMajority Rule?
There’s been a lot of talk about majority rule, and what it means, including the fact that, although Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million votes, she lost the election in the...
View ArticleHonest Politicians?
There’s an old question about how one determines an honest politician, and the answer is that, when bribed, he stays bought. Even by this shady definition, the current President isn’t an honest...
View ArticleWhat’s Lost
Language and literature reflect culture. That’s a truism, one that’s accurate, yet there’s an aspect of that truism that’s seldom explored. Everyone focuses on the additions to literature and to the...
View ArticleNon-Universal Uniformity?
In the January 13th issue of New Scientist was a report about a series of measurements designed to determine the mass of protons. Despite the extreme precision of the equipment [designed to be accurate...
View ArticleImpersonal Emotional Exhibitionism
As any of my readers who’ve searched for me on Facebook and Twitter may know… I’m not there. It’s not that I’m opposed to new technology or new forms of communications per se. I was an early adopter of...
View ArticleLTUE –Life, The Universe, and Everything
Next week, from Thursday through Saturday [February 15-17] I’ll be at LTUE in Provo, UT, and appearing on panels, as well as having a kaffeklatsch on Friday afternoon. Some of the other authors...
View ArticleChange… or Rate of Change
This past weekend, I was talking to a National Park Service biologist about various environmental and ecological matters, and he was telling me that Zion National Park, until the last snowstorm, was...
View ArticleTrump: Solution or Problem?
President Trump’s supporters clearly feel that if he isn’t the solution to a myriad of problems facing the United States, then he is at least the only one in American politics capable of addressing the...
View ArticleFacts
I have to say that I’m getting more than a little concerned about the idea that there are “different facts” or “alternative facts.” There are accurate facts and inaccurate facts [which I don’t regard...
View ArticleManaging People
The turnover of the President’s White House political staff in his first year in office is the highest ever. I’d submit that it represents a simple fact. The President doesn’t know how to choose or...
View Article“They’re Coming After Us.”
Apparently, someone in Kentucky doesn’t like the National Rifle Association. That someone spray-painted a blank billboard with the words, “Kill the NRA.” So far the painter hasn’t been discovered. What...
View ArticleGun-Toting Teachers?
The idea that teachers armed with guns will in any way stop or mitigate the deaths of students being killed by unhappy other students or other individuals is not only one of the dumbest ideas I’ve...
View ArticleFreedom?
The Libertarians are all about freedom, no matter what their freedom does to others. The currently-elected Republicans, for the most part, only want it for the privileged, or anyone who wants to carry...
View ArticleTucson Festival of Books
This is just a notice that I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of books in Tucson, Arizona, on March 10th and 11th, with panel appearances on both days. The Saturday panel is on Inventing Complex Fantasy...
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