Categories: potpourri

From Paw to Page

After twenty plus years of frustrated efforts to publish a novel, I scaled back my ambitions to conform to the somewhat circumscribed audience still available to me: Me. More >>

As to technical specifications, trust but verify.

There’s a reason why most scientific breakthroughs and spectacular fatal accidents are accomplished by people under 30. It’s because young people just don’t know enough not to take crazy risks. More >>

Accepting Imperfection

Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the book and lyrics for many famous musicals, including “Oklahoma!,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I” and “The Sound of Music.” He also wrote the following essay.More >>

To Quote...

It’s very hard for me to remember song lyrics, famous quotes or jokes. But a few sentences from fiction (and the press) have stuck in my head, which either tells you something about the sentences, or my head:More >>

The shape of things to come.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the only force in the universe you can absolutely depend upon is in direct conflict with basic human nature. The force is cyclicality and the human behavior is best summed up by my friend Bob Willemin’s line: “People have a tendency to take current circumstances and extrapolate them indefinitely into the future.” More >>

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