I was stupid when I was young.
My daughter Clara - age 8 - in the midst of eating breakfast and watching Blues Clues, just asked me who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016."Are they talking…
Novelist Jose Saramago quit writing in 1953. Part of me wants to reach back in time and hug him. The other part wants to smack him.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago submitted the manuscript of Skylight – his first – to a Lisbon publisher in 1953. Receiving no response, Saramago gave up fiction altogether. His wife says…
Posthumous vindication sucks.
On this date in 1456, Joan of Arc was declared innocent for heresy. Unfortunately, she was declared innocent 25 years after she was burned at the stake. Being incorrectly burned…
I did not like Doris Lessing’s response to winning the Nobel Prize
I was saddened to hear about the death of Doris Lessing. I read a lot of her work while in college and some of her short stories since then. I…
Spite is right
I’ve often said that spite is the best reason to do anything. Here is further evidence of this fact: British scientist John Gurdon is told by his high school teacher…
