Category Archives: Miscellany

Crop Rotation in 2024

Though it be a bit late in the month for New Year’s sentiments, this is nonetheless my first post of the New Year. Plans flucuate through the course of a year, but I can say with certainly that there will be no new novel this year. After a long, intense time spent with The Rubble …

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Writing the Ship in the New Year

Happy (soon) New Year. Not so happy pun, but it is what it is. As 2023 comes to a close, my mind for at least a few minutes, enters into the same thought process as most do at this time of year; what do I want the New Year to bring? Plenty. But for the …

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Yes, Virginia, It Is Worth It. Usually.

For several years around this festive time of year, I reposted a thought piece of mine on “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus,” the famous New York Sun editorial from the late 1800s. I considered it, and still do, one of the greatest opinion pieces ever written in English. I stand by the claim. …

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Midwinter Night’s Read

I think of literature and books around Christmas time. Despite lacking the reading speed to be a voracious reader as they say, I nonetheless associate the holiday season with both giving and getting books. (and hence shopping for them.) Iceland has a deeply held tradition of jolabockaflod, or book flood, wherein books are given on …

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Book Launch!

Well, the day has arrived, friends. The Rubble and the Shakespeare is now live on all major e-retailers. I have entered it into my (admittedly) rudimentary My Books sections here on this website. It gets the job done, as it does for my other books, until something better comes along. Feel free to click on …

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