TRUE, there’s more and more static appearing in every facet of life, be it relationships, culture, politics, finances and consumer information – you name it. But there’s also some good news about some of that static: namely the K. Simmons Production STATIC movie that premiered in 2021. A family friendly, science fiction/drama, Susan’s struggle to find balance in her life as she deals with her practical husband Donald and her father Will who’s showing symptoms of early onset Alzheime...

SAY good-bye to those Norse Hell Polar Vortex days and hello to…well…our new hot-as-hell summer. It’ll soon to be hot enough to: – fry an egg on the hood of a car; – burn a lizard’s feet; – happily take a dust bath on the savannah; – make trees run for shade; – make you feel like you’re forever blushing; – not feel your fingertips burn when you pick up a copy of THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Hot, hot, hot! And no end in sight!

Almost as hot as my fi...

I’D like to start today’s post with a special experience I had while working for NASA (I was a U.S. National Academy of Science/National Research Council senior research associate assigned to NASA-Johnson Space Center in the mid-70’s to assist with water quality issues on the proposed International Space Station and up and coming Space Shuttle). One of my many objectives was to work on reclaiming used water to drinkable (potable) standards. At that time about half of the launch weight o...

Earlier today, I began thinking about the phrase “better than…” and several thoughts bubbled up in my loquacious mind, eventually coalescing into the question, “Better than reality?” Which leads me to today’s post, “Why read fiction these days reality is already quite a bit stranger and more engaging than fiction?”

Let me qualify this: “Better than…what?” Better than eating? Better than money? Better than sex? Better than writing?. Better than…fiction? 

Having a crea...