Don't want to be the Grinch who...
Look, I'm as thrilled as everyone that the House reached agreement on a health care reform plan that will ensure medical coverage for 96% of Americans. This is a milestone, and a landmark piece of legislation which will make it through voting process next week. But, here's my concern. In the proposal, there are numerous references to employers, as well as what happens to those who lose their ...
"The NRO"...Out of Whack!
What is wrong with the National Review Online this week? In one article, Mark Steyn criticizes Americans for foolishly following President Barack Obama, since we hardly know him. Mr. Steyn questions President Obama’s compassion, while he himself employs a derogatory choice of words in an attempt to be ironic. By the way, the article Mr. Steyn wrote was about the supposed hypocrisy of the ...
Everything I see, Is Me
Whatever form your idea of peace might take, may you now find it. Everything I see, is me. There are no "others". Each of us is really the same. Each one looks at others, and each one sees himself. ("him" herein has nothing to do with gender.) I see a person on the corner across the street, and I am seeing myself from a different perspective. ...
The frivolous beginning to the High Holidays
Halloween, more than any other religious holiday, has become utterly secular, and it's not a recent phenomenon. It was a time to play dress up when I was a kid, and it still is today. Since I am incredibly old, thats saying something. It was originally meant to be a day to honor all the saints, so I suppose a protestant country isn't quite sure what to do with that sort of thing. Still, Mexico ...
Galloping With Blinkers On
What do bailouts of failed financial companies and the latest round of funding for fusion research have in common? If Arnold Toynbee is right, one of the keys to our collective failure to face the twilight of the industrial age. Another round of cheery news from The Archdruid Report.
Three Roosters
June 8 THREE ROOSTERS The three roosters come to the meeting to hear themselves crow. The membership purely spectators in the longest, lowest, loudest sobriety competition. Those of us in the fray are like picked-on-puppies who learn slowly not to put our heads up to spare our eyes and hearts. The same noise comes repeatedly. Suspicion is never aroused; the heads nod at all the ...
Do You Recycle?
I'm talking about recycling your writing. I love it when I get a piece published and then later reprinted somewhere else. Getting that extra mileage is especially gratifying if the first publication source had a limited circulation or hit a distant part of the country. I also like to go from print to online and the other way around. Of course, opportunities to republish poems in journals are very ...
Jesse's Girl Book Tour Posting
On this the last day of my virtual book tour for "Jesse's Girl," many thanks to all my supportive colleagues who have stopped by!!! http://www.thehotauthorreport.blogalogues.com/ Novelist/playwright Gary Morgenstein is the author of four novels. In addition to Jesse’s Girl, a thriller about a widowed father’s search for his adopted teenage son who has run away from a drug ...
A laugh at our own expense
Here's a sample of Tom Christenson's glossary of terms for writers. If it doesn't make you grin, you haven't published yet! A ADVANCE: A secret code signalling to the marketing department whether or not to promote a title. ADVANCE COPY: A bound book that when opened by an editor will instantly expose an embarrassing ...
