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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis 20 Apr 2012 | 12:45 am
Chauvet Horses, 30,000 years old An individual human life can range from moments to a century. Yet even a century is a heartbeat when the entire span of human history is imagined. I am reading a...
Patience and Perseverence 9 Apr 2012 | 08:21 am
My son asked me today, “How do you teach patience and perseverence?” Apparently he knew someone who needed to learn and my son wanted to teach them. I said, “Those qualities cannot be taught.” So ...
Sufi Whirling 22 Mar 2012 | 01:30 am
The first part of third book in the series of the Elysium Texts, the Chaldean Codex, takes place in the mountains of Persia. The adventurers meet up with Sufi dervishes in the mountains in their sear...
John Carter of Mars, Earth and Barsoom 12 Mar 2012 | 09:59 am
Yummy I went to see the John Carter movie this weekend. I had read many of the Burroughs novels when I was 12 or so and had mostly forgotten them, so it was with only a small amount of nostaligia an...
Cadfael 4 Mar 2012 | 01:30 am
Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael How can an old man and a monk be sexy? We are talking about the two categories of men that are usually relegated to the opposite side of the word. This was intriguin...
Forever Hamlet 25 Feb 2012 | 03:05 am
my lord Hamlet, and all of us I saw Hamlet for the first time and for the fiftieth last night. I had not seen David Tennant’s ’09 production until now. He is certainly the most soulful Hamlet I hav...
Wind and Wave 17 Feb 2012 | 11:55 pm
16 and a half feet long...and two feet from the deep blue sea In writing conferences we are often admonished to “write what you know” and this came home to me recently as I edited the manuscript for ...
The Empty Teacup 6 Feb 2012 | 03:31 am
Not a Franciscan Friar But there is a reason George Lucas dressed his Jedi this way. All characters in a novel have to come from somewhere and I have read many humorous accounts written by novelists...
Magic Books 26 Jan 2012 | 04:56 pm
Magic all by themselves The idea of a magic book is well-established in our culture. It starts way, way back with Judaism and the reliqueries for the Torah…maybe even the Ark of the Covenant which s...
Kemaleddin Reis 21 Jan 2012 | 02:27 am
Not Kemaleddin, but his nephew, Piri As happens when one writes historical fiction, sometimes the lines blur. I am in a blurry area now in The Necromancer’s Grimoire, the sequel to The Hermetica of ...
