Monthly Archives: February 2018

Preface to my Novel about Colonizing Mars

I first thought about the lone colonist of Mars by the chance association between two very different and, some would say, antithetical ideas. I designed a university course on the changing perception of Mars in literature over the past two … Continue reading

Posted in Culture, Mars, Solitude, Writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Preface to my Novel about Colonizing Mars

Yard Sale Culture

Sometimes he felt as though he’d wandered into a world where everyone’s life had been spilled out like a gut-shot man, as if their sentiment and possessions were stacked in boxes at a planet-wide yard sale. He thought of what … Continue reading

Posted in Culture, Environmentalism | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Yard Sale Culture