Sci Fi writer Fritz Lieber wrote more than one short story about a future population so satiated with virtual reality that they no longer participated in real life. When Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, he reckoned without Facebook. Enough of us are on line enough that the real [...]

I was the sole judge for a big city short story competition some years ago. (I’m sure after that, they always had more than one). I received about fifty stories in the mail. Young and enthusiastic at that time, I was delighted to have my reading material assigned to me for some weeks [...]

Probably every living author in the world has seen facebook for what it is and got on. Why didn’t I see this sooner? I discovered the author fact backwards. One of my many struggling writer or artist friends suggested I add Brooke London who turned out to be an author of romantic suspense. (Hooray!)
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Most Facebookers with 5 or 6 friends will never see the message so for their edification, here’s what the warning says:
“You are engaged in behaviour that may be considered annoying or abusive by other users. Facebook Systems determined that you were going too fast when adding friends. You must significantly slow down. Further use of [...]

Facebook is one of those experiences that will come to define a certain social phenomena in the world that caused a change in the way people think. Facebooks ending will be very hard on many people. At first I thought it might be dangerous. Now I think, ‘no more dangerous than life.’
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Woke up yesterday to read about cutbacks for Daycare and seniors The folks they figure who won’t speak up. We’ve GOT to let them know they can’t do this stuff.Let’s keep the whole world from becoming just one vast corporation, eh? Or at least postpone it awhile.
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Woke up to 2015 friends this morning but it’s early days yet. That number seems to be feeding off itself. Funny, I don’t feel any different. And how else could I end up with a considerable number of friends in India and other far off places? Sitting down to eat breakfast on my tv trray [...]

In the middle of my life, I found I was CELIAC, Thank heavens. What I’d been was sick which got worse and worse. I’d be bumbling along in my life and WHAMO! I’d get pains like lightning hit my stomach. Rolling around on the bathroom floor. They would last about a day, weak for [...]

If you are a lighthearted fiction author, especially Chick Lit or a lover of Jane Austen, please let me know about your work. I am also interested in ideas and history. Not keen on the Drats & the Boo Hoos. Taking the risk of living large, stepping out, encountering the possibilities, learning and growing, [...]

I’m a reader who needs some new book suggestions. Here’s all the stuff I hate about the books I’m encountering. I think this is only volume one. Tell me something good to read – PLEASE!