by admin | Apr 8, 2013 | Being Irish, History, politics, Society, war
Do not speak ill of the dead, we’re told. Why not? The dead are beyond the reach of my slings and arrows. More dangerous, to my mind is the whitewashing of misdeeds done by the recently deceased. I will agree that Westboro Baptist style celebration at the death of...
by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | EMS, government programs, insurance, mental health
I feel the need to bitch about the state of Massachusetts Mental Health system.It works as though the Powers That Be sat down and said, “How much money can we spend and not actually solve any problems?” and went from there.A few years back, they closed all...
by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | Writing
Time to make me some enemies.I don’t see the point of fan fiction.Like, at all.It’s one thing to be influenced by another author. We all are. I can often tell a writer’s favorite author just by reading his work. Brust was a Zelazny fan. S M Stirling...
by admin | Jan 26, 2013 | Writing
I recently did an author talk at my local library. It went very well, sold a handful of books, made some new contacts. It just flowed nicely, people had enough questions to keep the momentum up any time I ran down, so it was a nice, informal chat.This brings me to my...
by admin | Jan 24, 2013 | American dream, EMS, Writing
Author talk resounding success. Easily made as much as I would have sleeping on the ambulance for that same hour and a half.
