6 best practices for working virtually in self isolation
No, I don’t have any Golden Tablets of Truth to share here. These are just some things that I find helpful.
Don’t mess with Mabel
Mabel and the Yellow Jackets could be a great name for a punk band, but I put down my electric bass years ago. No, this short yarn is about a woman fighting a kind of home invasion. Some of it could be construed as horror perhaps, but don’t worry. Mabel will protect you.
Books in my shadow
Everything ground to a halt. I was stunned and disheartened. The last thing I could do was laugh at the absurd toxicity of our politics.
Other authors are not your competition
Readers buy books all the time. Rare is the person who says, “I shall buy one and only one book this decade!” No, readers buy more than one book.
Beautiful multilingual eye examination chart of the early 1900s San Francisco
112 years ago, optometry was a growing profession. In diverse cities like San Francisco, however, the eye chart commonplace in western countries today could not suffice.
Watch out for poisonous books
If you care about history, when handling precious old print books and documents you wear gloves (not cotton) to protect it from your skin oils. Now here’s another reason.
If you want to write a novel that’s literary as fuck
Then here are some tips from the fucking great Suzanne Reisman.
On Valerian
I generally don’t like to post negative reviews. What’s the point? So let me say right off that I did not hate the movie. It just left me feeling flat. I want to understand why. As a writer, I want to avoid these mistakes.
