Opinion

Take one NaNovel, edit out the rough bits, and boom, you've got "Time." This past year Bernie participated in his first NaNoWriMo. This piece is an excerpt of his unnamed novel. After having removed the 47,000 words that did not really work, he found that there was at least a potentially interesting essay on the nature of life, the universe and everything. That is the way he usually writes, which is why he is an unproductive and unknown author.

The gender wars continue to wage in the kitchen and around the house. In the end, however, perhaps we are not so different. After all, none of us, man or woman, knows what the hell to do with three bottles of "dill" in the spice cabinet.

It's not just a matter of staying warm; it's not just a matter of saving money. The sight draws us, the heat directs us, and there is more still that the flames bring to us ...

Looking at the recent terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan...

Exploring a new writing style, Bernie reads "Proxies," by Brian Blanchfield.

The Editor doesn't often review books, but a new one by Ralph Bland? The Editor couldn't wait to read it!

Sienna Wynn reviews Michael Harvey's haunting thriller about friends in a rapidly changing Boston with a string of brutal murders.

The horror of chemical weapons in Syria...

Aung San Suu Kyi brought about hope and peace to the people for the people, but those hopes have been dashed for her lack of sympathy towards the Rohingya, who are suffering from government-sanctioned genocide.

Mishka Hoosen's experimental prose in "Call it a Difficult Night" gives the reader time to reflect, study, gather, harvest their own thoughts.

"...The time has to come to hurt the voiceless..."

The impeachment of the corrupt South Korean--South Koreans celebrated by having chicken for dinner, a play on the word chicken, which rhymes with the president's name in Korean.

Fear doesn't always have its origin in foreign lands...

Regarding the hate crime in St. Louis: the desecration of a Jewish cemetery.

Who have we become?

Ongoing genocide of the ethnic Muslim minority, the Rohingya...

Another look at the results of drug use in the Philippines...

"...Double-speak is the way; Orwell's prophecy comes true..."

"...the way it's always been."

What lies on the other side of this existence we call "Life?" Will it be fun? Will it last forever? Does Cousin Dandruff have to be there?

Hmmm, more questionable choices by people around the world...

Holiday week and the shopping's done -- how about some popcorn?

It's back to the movies for more Marvel mayhem!

Charlotte "Muddy" Rewis is getting up there in years, and knows how precious memory -- and life -- are. Her own memories seem more real to her than the world around her in Niles Reddick's book "Drifting Too Far from the Shore."

So why is it if a husband and wife have identically sized feet, no two pairs of shoes in their closet are the same size? Because a size eight sneaker by any other name...

You love writing, but can you afford the time, the stress, and the money to go to school to pursue it? Gabriela Pereira tackles this question and strategies for writers in "DIY MFA."

Nursery rhymes in the hands of new parents can be horrible weapons of brain cell destruction. Truly it is Nature's plan that little critters aren't born able to understand what their parents are singing.

Bernie and Sand finally return to the theater, just to go to Mars.

If you can really write well, don't you want to...

It's not easy becoming one, and there are a couple of quirks involved in being one, but they do exist.