It’s not that the German alphabet is officially gaining a new letter in the form of an upper-case Eszett (that funny ß thing they use in some words instead of ss – it never had an official upper-case because no German words started with it and apparently all-caps isn’t, or wasn’t, that much of a Read More…
Category: Musings
Observing Autopilot
No matter who we are or what we do, we spend a heck of a lot of our lives on autopilot, doing the things we normally do without paying much if any attention to them. This is both a good thing and a bad one. Good, because if we had to actually concentrate on everything Read More…
A Slow Becoming
Today is my first Independence Day as an American. On the surface, it’s not that different from any other day when I’m not at work: the Husband and I don’t do ceremonies and things, and we don’t have much of a social circle (non-existent isn’t much, after all), so none of the many traditions that Read More…
Failures of Consequence
So I heard this morning that once again our loving dicta… ahem… government wishes to double down on the so-called “war on drugs”. Again. Which leaves me thinking that the persons making this alleged decision are dumber than the average rock – or even the below-average rock – because the “war on drugs” has been Read More…
You might be a writer if
you read something and immediately find yourself thinking they did it wrong and building the story you think it should have been you think in narrative your characters are more real to you than the people you work with in your day job …and not just because you know them better your spouse/partner knows better Read More…
Of the Nature of Agency
There are few things that irritate me more than the unseemly spectacle of someone who claims to be an adult placing blame for some heinous deed on someone or something other than the perpetrator(s). Very simply, the person who commits the act is to blame. There may be mitigating factors, and there may be complicating Read More…
The Tribe of the Damned
There is a special kind of stupid forcing its way into everyone’s lives in the US at the moment, the kind of stupid that can only happen when someone is highly educated and has little to no experience of working in a field where actions have consequences; or when someone has been indoctrinated with it Read More…