Boycotting Newsweek

Newsweek’s headline this week read:  "The Case for Killing Granny: Why curbing excessive end-of-life care is good for America." …Huh?  Bah??? Since when did it become anyone else’s business what an older person does with their money? Since when did we put "national interests" before private life? The Good of the Many outweighs the Good of the One…isn’t that exactly…

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Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blogger: Bernie Mojzes

Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. First, before this week’s blog: Wednesdays is apparently the day for blogging about writing! Author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has begun posting Wednesday writing blogs as well. You can find them here. Our guest blogger for this week is Bernie Mojzes, who has written stories for, among…

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Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blogger: Bernie Mojzes

Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. First, before this week’s blog: Wednesdays is apparently the day for blogging about writing! Author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has begun posting Wednesday writing blogs as well. You can find them here. Our guest blogger…

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This Weekend — Book Appearances!

Edited to add: at Barnes and Nobles. John and I have our first joint signing this weekend. We’ll be signing books in: Norfolk, VA at 1:00pm on Saturday, September 19th at: Barnes and Nobles MacArthur Center 300 Monticello Norfolk, VA  23510   Williamsburg, VA at 1:00pm on Sunday, September 20th at:            Barnes and NoblesDuke of Gloucester Street Williamsburg, VA 23185 

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Spore!!!!!!

Last year, about this time, my son, Tornado 1, first heard about Spore. Spore, for those of you who do not know it, is a computer game where you start as an amoeba and evolve until you become a space faring race. For one year, Tornado 1 has talked Spore, breathed Spore, planned roleplaying games…

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Alphabetical Advantage

I did not realize when I picked Arhyalon (which, for those of you who may not know, happens to be the secret true name of the Milky Way Galaxy) that this would put me at the beginning of most people’s friend’s lists–which are apparently listed alphabetically by Live Journal.

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