This morning Elon Musk announced that his Falcon heavy rocket has succeeded in boosting a Tesla roadster into the Asteroid Belt. This […]

In the absence of any other model, it is currently fashionable to posit that consciousness and intelligence “emerge” out of the complexity […]

In an earlier post, Inspiration, I mentioned how I came to consider a novel based on a revolution on Mars. This is […]

Today is a day to give thanks. I am thankful for many things and many people, far too many to list. Most […]

During part of my checkered past I was a Naval Aviator specializing in hunting submarines. Our Air Group flew off USS Wasp […]

This little snippet arose out of a writing class I was taking at ed2go.com. We were given a plain vanilla description of  […]

Inspiration to write must, I think, be tailored to each writer and their mind. For me, I find the best inspiration in […]

Moby Dick is a classic of American fiction. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex , on […]

A long, long time ago, but in a universe right here, I was sitting in a survival class for Student Naval Aviators. […]