I liked watching the planes fly. They just seemed so magical, like they were suspended by wires nobody could see, even though I knew the magic was called "physics." At first I imagined them held up by the wires, then…
Tag: fiction
My youngest son and I watched "Godzilla" last night. As a movie, it was a fun experience, I guess - giant monsters! Destruction! Catchy one-liners! Woo! - but I struggled to watch the movie. I struggled because there were things…
This is a post of liner notes, sort of, about "Two Wishes," a story I posted a couple of months ago. I normally enjoy such author's notes myself, but I also understand that they sometimes erode what magic a story…
I have lived two lives. In my first life, when I was old, I wandered through a shop of antiques looking for a lampstand. My cat had finally knocked over my wife's light; it was a gift for her from…