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The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
This post is more commentary and personal reflection than review ( Read more... ) -
Why Blues
When i gave this piece to my husband to read last fall, he said, "You should carry this around with you, and when people ask you what you do, hand it to them."
Why Blues
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Kimberly Todd Wade
In On Highway 61, Dennis McNally writes, “…the real nexus of current blues revisionism is located in the ongoing argument over the career of poor ( Read more... ) -
My Mother, The Rock Star
This story is an excerpt from my 2011 novella, The Reality Wars:
My Mother, the Rock Star
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Kimberly Todd Wade My mother was not intentionally treacherous. She intended to love me, but nothing was ever that simple for her. I’ve no doubt my mother had passionate emotions about me, worried over and even doted on me on occasion. She ( Read more... ) -
Art and Science
"I do think that true science is not going to destroy art, for example, but should be an enhancement of it. There's no reason why science has to be a bitter, hard, cruel kind of thing." -- Julian Jaynes, The Julian Jaynes CollectionThis is from a question and answer period following a lecture given in 1978. Hopefully we all know the truth of this ( Read more... ) -
Creative Confusion
"One crucial quality of creativity is an ability to hold fast to confusion until confusion comes clear." -- Richard Rhodes, "Alone in the Country of the Mind," in The Julian Jaynes Collection
In the hairiest parts of the creative process, it can be hard not to give into frustration or boredom. Part of being an artist is building up a tolerance ( Read more... ) -
Do you want to play?
"Is not an unwritten book like an imaginary playmate?" -- Julian Jaynes, The Julian Jaynes Collection (One of the books i bought with my MR advance.)
I wrote the beginning of a novel a little over a year ago and promptly put it away. I wasn't interested in writing another novel. Recently i fished it out and typed it up. Maybe. -
Happy New Year!
Edits and payment for Maya, Resurrected arrived last night. I haven't looked at this manuscript in five years, but--YAY!
2016, already interesting.
