Shards of Consciousness

As you may have noticed, I didn't get a podcast up today. Why? My daughter, my only daughter, is getting married this weekend. If you have ever been involved in a wedding, you know it can be, how do I say it, hectic. If that wedding is your only daughter's, and her mother has decided it will be done right, ...

In The Fires of Paratime L.E. Modesitt, Jr. uses a metaphor that has been a power in my life since I first read the book. This is the image of the changewind. When the changewind blows, everything changes. You may not know what changes will be wrought as a result of the changewind, but you do know wrought they ...

sound. fury. mine! mine!
children cry. the raucous din
a masked mockery
of truth. the public good? hah!
greed's the tart vying for votes.

Television shows can be the source of a lot of metaphors in our lives. And no wonder, there is an interplay between the fiction of the broadcast and the experience of living in which each shapes the other. In this episode of the Shards of Consciousness podcast I touch on cooking shows, and how they can accurately, and inaccurately, act ...

Hedgehogs are a spiny creature related to porcupines. They tend to live in hedgerows, but have lately, in Great Britain at least, had their numbers decimated as a result of their most common natural enemy, the automobile....