Common Sense Still Common.
As a well-known cynical quip maintains, common sense isn’t all that common. While at times this might seem to be the case, there are some...
Mark Twain on Manner and Method.
The New York Times obituary for Mark Twain hailed him as “the best-known American man of letters,” and acclaimed him as the nation’s...
In many ways we are products of our time and culture...
In many ways we are products of our time and culture and even of our language. Because of this, it’s probably way too easy to make...
Two major peaks of life satisfaction
In my novel, Trouble in Rooster Paradise, a former detective tells a youthful caregiver about one of his cases in Seattle, back in 1950....
"A cross-eyed species with extremely muscular thumbs"
Not quite thirty years after the publication of his dystopian novel,Brave New World, Aldous Huxley wrote a non-fiction follow-up, Brave...
Many people are regularly persuaded...
From what I’ve observed over the years, many people are regularly persuaded to buy a number of things they really don’t need. We are...