You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.