“Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying call over the past few years in response to the unequal and often violent treatment of Black Americans at the hands of their countrymen.
For many Americans, they had no idea of just how much the scales of liberty and democracy were tilted…
They say that the best travel stories are the ones that go supremely wrong. The train that leaves the station with all your stuff aboard while you get a gelato on the platform. All you have left is a handful of kopecks and a mango ripple cone.
The toxic tummy…
One naturally expects a travel book written in the last year to come out as something more exciting than a routine tale of airports, museums, and hotels progressing in a predictable order but oh my god, there are reasons why tourism took a nosedive during the pandemic and this book…
There’s a cut of meat I always look for in the supermarket. Not a big roast, nothing showy, not unless I’m having a dining room full of guests and that’s vanishingly rare in these pandemic days.
Oyster blade. My local often has it packaged up with a crust of spices…
This morning — Australian time — two articles crossed my desk at ILLUMINATION within a few minutes of each other.
Both dealt with a topic that had not until that moment entertained my attention: the recent remarks of comedian Dave Chappelle on a Netflix special. …
I was reading an excellent piece from Linda Caroll about her editing experience.
All good stuff; bottom line is that any editor wants the writer to succeed, but if the writer submits a science fiction space story to Horse and Hound, it’s not going to do well.
Any publication…
This is what they call a false equivalence. …
Tell me if this sounds familiar:
My Facebook feed — that endlessly entertaining stream of fun and information from family and friends — comes up with something interesting. A map of the world and a list of cities.
How many of these places have you been to? …
