Purrfect Productivity So… I’m contemplating my New Year Resolutions while listening to an audio of Thrive, by Arianna Huffington. Arianna and I have come to similar conclusions and...
Writer’s Life – 2020 Update
Writer’s Life – 2020 Update This article, particularly the 2020 predictions and manifestations, has been edited and added to in the light of changes during the “global...
Be Yourself Books for Writers: Recent Reviews
I’ve been on a writer’s journey with my last few reads: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, and now Jack Kerouac’s, On the Road!!! Each of these books...
3 Important “Feminist” Novels: A Speculative Fiction Triptych
Triptych: a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together. In visual art, triptych panels are often used as an altar piece. Assembling...
Surviving Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
What Atlas Shrugged Is Like: Root Canals, Rape and PTSD This 18 second review about sums up this book lover’s thoughts on Atlas Shrugged: Oh, why did I pick up this book? It was penned by a...
Evoking Vietnam A Review of Poet Teresa Mei Chuc
It’s the first Open Mic Night of the new year at Tia Chucha’s, Centro Cultural and Bookstore. I wander in to a spare crowd that gradually fills the seats in time for the feature presenter...