Writing

Hi all, and welcome to my new website. Here's some background: I loved SF as a kid, "but when I became a man, I put away childish...

Over the years, too, the odds of accidental death steadily accumulate. I grew up watching Loony Tunes, and know that somewhere out there ...

My middle son coined this term for me when he was seventeen: Once a month, he says, I lift my snout to the full moon and howl whommmm!

Last night I wandered through the moon’s deep dust, Flung far across an intervening void By wan Diana, clad in waxen robes;

What is a mark in time but reckoning of it? Each anniversary carries in a small black pouch Strapped to its belt, a slight reminder

I was wondering how I could possibly go from semi-retirement to tackling all this when the phone rang.

Grammar rules are like another kind of prescriptive law: The criminal code. Both are useful to consult to avoid errors, or to diagnose...

There are two main ways of looking at English. You can be prescriptive, setting and enforcing strict rules of speech.

You’re going where? McCaffee’s director said, and McCaffee shrugged. Just driving, he said. The glower deepened; McCaffee could have sworn..

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, but of all ills global warming was the illest. The bad stuff was breathtaking...

After the postdocs’ lecture, Dr Aspler is back in the classroom erasing the blackboard. He comes to HUMILITY, pauses, leaves the word on...

To pause at the lip of this voiceless place To wait at the brink of this frozen dream And feel its dead breath seep through waiting space