America’s New Poet Laureate

In a brave, interesting and shockingly right choice, Kay Ryan has been chosen to be the US’s 16th Poet Laureate and I could not be more thrilled. I have followed and loved her subtle, thought provoking and witty poetry for several years now. She can make words dance in ways I can only dream [...]

Joyriding with Characters

Some of my earliest forays into the writing of fiction utilized other people’s characters, much the way that when someone learns to drive, they use someone elses car. When I was young, I wrote stories of the Super Friends and the Teen Titans. Just a few short years ago I wrote long involved stories [...]

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Our Intellectual Heritage

There are very few locations in the modern world where intellect and unambiguous heroism can both be memorialized at once. One of those is Bletchley Park, the secret base in England where allied code breakers labored night and day to learn the secrets of the Nazi war machine.
This important historical site has long been [...]