Middle English for “Robot”?
Cleaning my desk today in preparation for the new semester, I found a project that had somehow fallen off my radar months ago … for which I’m dreadfully embarrassed, as it was a planned favor for a good friend. A “Chaucer’d” project, it stood only half complete. Naturally, the difficult …
Shards of Heaven Glossary and Next Project Decisions
So I decided, somewhere on the long trip out West, that Shards of Heaven needed a glossary. Nothing on a Tolkien scale, mind you, but at least a basic historical who’s who, since the majority of the novel’s characters — even bit players — are based on real people. The …
Working on a Toast
Not long after I arrived here at El Cid, one of our senior faculty members retired. There was not, I don’t think, a cause-and-effect relationship between the two events. There was, however, cause for cheering the retiring professor, and I chose to do so by rewriting the famed lines of …
Cameron Matthew Anestis: A Remembrance
The news came to me from Citadel cadets via Facebook about an hour before midnight: LCpl Anestis had died. I immediately went through several stages, from thinking it was some sort of sick joke to hoping it was someone other than my former student Cameron Matthew Anestis — selfishly hoping …