All the Ms: Lack of Trigger Warnings, Thank Goodness

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I was about fifteen. I was standing in my parents' kitchen talking about something--school or drama club or something--to an adult who h...

The Fruitfulness of Gardening Detectives

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I'm a big believer that characters need jobs--even full-time detectives! After all, Sherlock has his bees; Joan from Elementary keeps u...

Enos & The Wilderness

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Enos & The Wilderness Heading into the wilderness to gain insight is not merely a product of modern life and Sondheim’s Into the Woods ....

Kate of Taming of the Shrew: Does She Transform?

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I questioned whether I should include Katherine from Taming of the Shrew on my A-Z Characters Who Transform List . Does she transform? She ...

All the Ms: Maloy to Maltman

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Maloy, Kate: Every Last Cuckoo is about a not-uncommon topic: the death of a spouse. It is somewhat unique because the main character, Sara...

Della Street and Betty Jones: Attitudes Don't Work on a Timeline

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One of the more irritating attitudes that occurs in every age is the chronocentric insistence that everything has led up to now (us) . There...

Problems with Utopias: Civil Order and Stigma

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Many utopias purport not to need a police or other type of civil force. Citizens are described as complying with the society's blueprint...

Joseph of Old: The Ultimate Transformation Tale

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Joseph of Old is the Old Testament's most complete epic. One of its most endearing qualities is that it embodies--in a way that few epic...

Insecurity in Jake & the Fatman

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Jake and the Fatman is a very smart show in many ways. One of the smartest aspects is that the crime takes place as much in the criminal...

Translation by Eugene Woodbury Available

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Eugene completed a number of translations, most notably translations of Twelve Kingdoms novels. He understood that a translation is itself a...

Complaint: Microsoft is Currently Run on the Principle of *Cut Off One's Nose to Spite One's Face*

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Rather than buy a new computer, I recently downloaded Windows 11 onto my computer. Before I continue, I will note that generally speaking, I...

All the Ms: Malouf to Malone

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Malouf, David: David Malouf is one of the great authors that I thought I’d heard of but didn’t put into context until I started this projec...

Give Characters Jobs: Clergy

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Speaking of religion...I mention in an earlier post that Jessica Fletcher's job of writer--which gives her a reason to travel around the...

1 Nephi 4-6: The Wilderness

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 As with posts about utopias, I am posting excerpts from my Book of Mormon from the Nineteenth Century Viewpoint  blog.  I believe that read...

Izzy: Transformation through Maturity

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Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt is a YA novel about a fifteen-year-old who loses her leg in a drunk driving accident that is not her fau...

Problems with Utopias: Problem of Isolation

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Over the next year or so, I will be posting now and again from my "sub-blogs."  The post here is from the associated blog, Problem...

All the Ms: Mallette to Mallone

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Gloria Mallette: Distant Lover starts with a clearly characterized protagonist. Lots of family problems, so I didn’t keep going, but I did...

Henry Wood: Not a Disguise to the Lover

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One of the best episodes of Granada's Sherlock Holmes is "The Adventure of the Crooked Man."  Years earlier, Nancy DeVoy fell...

Elementary Moment of Chivalry

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One of the things I love about Sherlock on Elementary is how he never quite loses his British respect for protocol and hierarchy. Sure, he ...