I am so sick of all the violence. Killing isn’t the answer to anything. Hate is never a good thing. Over the 4th of July weekend, there were terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Baghdad, & Medina. Here in the US, more young black men shot by police. Now sniper(s?) killing police. Mass shootings in the US have reached a new record. Is lots and lots of death really what we want to achieve as a society? Is this really the society we want to live in? I’m a science fiction writer (among

So much has already been written about the events in Orlando that my own thoughts will be brief. It’s almost too painful to think about. The biggest massacre ever in America. A lot of people have focused on the gun issue because as difficult (well-nigh impossible) as it is to pass legislation prohibiting gun sales to people who might be considered at-risk for using a weapon to slaughter other human beings, it is still thought to be a more do-able prospect than to teach people

A creative friend posted “Be fearful of mediocrity” on Facebook and I immediately thought that it needed balancing out with something like: “Be fearful of being fearful of mediocrity”. I’ve met too many people over the years who are leading unfulfilled lives because they’re afraid to pursue a creative dream and not be great at it. They look at something I’ve made or something I’ve done and tell me how very much they want to do something like that, how they have always want to