Writers write from life. Fiction needs to be believable or else readers won’t be pulled into the story. Right now, there is more truth in fiction than can be found…
Is Honesty A Lost Virtue?
Dumbing Down With Donald Trump
The primaries seem to be all about dumbing down with Donald Trump. It’s been entertaining but also frightening. To think that the American public might elect Donald Trump as their…
Who Cares About The Mass Shootings in the USA?
I could be blogging about my writing life, but instead I’m writing about the mass shootings in the USA. I am so upset over last week’s mass shooting in Chicago…
When Will America Wake Up?
Again,we’re confronted by another senseless tragedy, this time, 20 children and five adults killed in an elementary school in Connecticut, as well as the shooter’s mother. I hate writing about such topics…
Fiction and the Republican Party
I’ve just finished reading, John O’Hara’s Ten North Frederick, the national book award winner (USA) for 1956. In it, the character, Joe Chapin, wants to run for president in the…
My American Neighbours
I wrote about my American neighbours, after a visit to #NYC and the #9/11 memorial. And at the time of another #election. What I wrote then still fits today. Friendly…