16 February 2026 Advanced If you ever feel like everything is always marching, marching, marching forward these days, your senses do not deceive you. Last night I sat alone in our loft/media room, watching episode five, “In the Name of the Mother” of the new series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , which is yet another spinoff of the original Game of Thrones: Song of Ice and Fire . So far, this series has me rapt, perhaps even more than the original HBO Game of Thrones , because its story is...

25 January 2026 Huxley Buxley’s Brave New World Let me be completely transparent, here: I am writing this book review today because I am midway through composing a 6000-word short story, and I am procrastinating the hard work of the climactic moment. I’ll do it tomorrow. This will be a bite-sized effort by comparison, ideal for launching back into my writing practice since setting it aside a whole week ago. Sometimes we must have compassion for ourselves when we fall out of our practices,...