the great unknown

I am coming to the part in my novel that I haven’t really fleshed out yet, either in my mind or in my notes. It would be typical for a writer in my position to say that she has “writer’s block.” Such a writer also says that there is nothing more frightening than the blank Continue reading the great unknown

qotd

Found in MEMRI The Arab man’s insistence upon controlling the destiny, and particularly the body, of the woman, is nothing but an attempt to cling to honor that he does not possess and of which he is deprived, socially and politically… — Salman Masalha, Israeli Arab author and poet

Odd mutterings

I must have missed this opera. Odds, ends If John Kerry were an opera, he’d be The Barber of Nothing I Say is True.