Even now, in the age of computer games, puzzles are my thing. The more pieces there are, the better I like them. Creating the ‘big picture’ is thrilling. For a few years now, there has been only one puzzle on my table. I’ve fit pieces, pondered a little, fit more pieces, pondered a bit more… […]
My characters are not based on real people. Sometimes I wish that they were. But then, I would have to fictionalize them, which would make them not at all the same. Since that’s so, it’s probably best that they live only in my imagination. I love inventing people. If I were a gamer, I would […]
Each of us sees life through an emotional prism. The light refracted through it colors our every thought and act. It may be that some of the colors are of pain. It may be that some of us are, in some ways, ‘walking wounded’. The phrase, ‘walking wounded’, is a medical term, originally used to refer to those […]
Artists – painters, sculptors, authors, poets, et al – express emotion with their work. Authors creating characters that show only one emotion is akin to painters rendering on the canvas in only one color, or at worst, only one hue of that color. Making lists of emotional attributes works for some authors; interviewing them works […]
Chaos is here. Wait…that’s not true. I may as well own it. Whiplash or not, I MADE the chaos.My life is – and always will be – a mashup. I’m into more than just a single theme, or even variations on that theme. But it’s my choice whether it will be an artful mashup or have […]
