Posts by Edward
The Last Stop-Gap to Credible, Reader-Minded Writing: Our Integrity
There are 1001 reasons to be glad that the barriers to writing have virtually disappeared in recent years and decades. In many places, especially online, there is nary a speed bump to slow us down before we press publish. Thanks to social media, anyone can write anything and post it everywhere. Book publishing, which used…
Read MoreCreating For Our Lives
One day, while forming an argument that creativity does not always have to have a purpose or deeper meaning, I sought out some of nature’s strangest and seemingly purposeless creations, figuring that if nature doesn’t always have a reason behind its creations, maybe we don’t have to, either. That’s when I came across the sparkle…
Read MoreThe Unappreciated Value of an Empty Life
The Vastness of Space “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” ~Carl Sagan Space comprises 96% of the known universe. Our human bodies are 99% space. Yet, despite the prevalence of space everywhere, we humans focus primarily on the 4% we can see out there, and the 1% that makes…
Read MoreI’m in a Long-Term Relationship With Writing
“For now.” That’s the response my husband teasingly gives me each time I claim that some new way of being in the world—a coveted role or title—will be mine forever, or, in cultural terms, that I’ve finally figured out “What I want to be when I grow up”. When he first said this, I bristled…
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