July 14 is also Bastille Day. I was shocked to discover, when I visited, that the key to the Bastille is at Mount Vernon, having been presented to President George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette. July 14 is the birthday of the artist who did the cover of this book. https://a.co/d/0hJIYXrY The ceiling above [...]
Lots of people probably saw this article but I still love it. https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/how-the-formula-1-pit-stop-has-saved-thousands-of-babies Basically, around 2001 doctors in neonatal intensive care units in London realized that they were losing babies after surgery to transfer procedures from the operating room to the intensive care unit. After watching a Formula 1 race in Italy they were impressed [...]
I’m having a bit of a struggle with my writing. I invented a setting where I think about choices that people make, and how they work out what they are willing to do to make their choices real. Written like that it sounds like any long novel, but in fact I’m writing short stories about [...]
I've been reading about probate court and trying to find videos to watch so I have some idea what goes on. My new novel has a lot of will problems and it feels very retro. Dorothy Sayers discussed inheritance problems in Unnatural Death. Agatha Christie discussed them in Sad Cypress. Both authors wrote short stories [...]
I find this picture fascinating. Actually I find the original on my back porch fascinating. The heap of snow on the table shows something odd about how much frozen water fell from the sky. The table has a pyramid of snow that is around eight or nine inches deep some inches in from the edge. [...]
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