myths
November 17, 2009
- I was watching the movie Zeitgeist tonight in which myth was defined as "something that is widely believed, but is actually false." Having proudly described myself as a "Purveyor of Myth" I took some offense to that definition. Actually, I stormed out of the room loudly articulating a few choice words. Myth by definition is not inherently false. On the contrary, I would ...
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November 14, 2009
- Whenever someone starts a sentence with “Men are…” or “Women always…”, I cringe. Sweeping generalizations about the sexes are silly at this point. We’re all bleeding into one another, changing, morphing. Plus, these stereotypes tend to be sexist in one way or the other.So I’m here to smash a few of them with my little ...
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May 2, 2009
- My muse is Scheherazade, teller of tales for One Thousand and One Nights in order to save her own life and those of the women in the harem. My Scheherazade is from the artist Hani El-Masri. She appears to be the ancient (as opposed to classical) Middle Eastern Aphrodite. Hani was kind enough to send me a digital copy of her portrait to print out. She is right in front of me over my desk ...
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April 29, 2009
- Not written from my own experience, alas. I just ran across a blog post by Vampire romance author Lynn Viehl http://www.genreality.net/the-reality-of-a-times-bestseller Her novel "Twilight Falls" (sixth in a series) just hit #19 on the NYT bestseller list. It is some indication of the importance that the list holds in my reading life, I believe, that I have neither read Ms. Viehl's ...
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