In the course of doing some worldbuilding for my latest novel “Children of the Storm” (which is now up to 88,000 words, by far my longest work of fiction), it hit me that passenger riverboat traffic in the Mississippi River and tributaries would explode compared … Continue readingRiverboat Futurism, à la Nouvelle-Orléans?
A little bit of an update on my incipient effort to discover if I have Italian citizenship and, if I do, to have it officially recognized. I’ve been in the process of moving, and, fool that I am, I had the family books packed up … Continue readingLike Great-Grandfather, Like…
I have my American citizenship, with the passport to prove it: I was born in the United States to two parents who were American citizens. But might I also be an Italian citizen and not know it? My great-grandfather emigrated from Italy to the United … Continue readingYou Have More than One Birthright…
In this post, after a long break (thanks, real life, for nothing, says the writer part of me) I return to my roots here: sharing the thoughts I have that are just too long to fit in a tweet, in a format that’s just more…permanent. … Continue readingCinematic Universe?