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9 11, 2015

The “Ahaa” Moment

By |2021-02-28T13:40:27-05:00November 9th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Jellyfish Have Eyes!|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

I went to the Silver Diner in Federal Plaza on Saturday to grab a quick lunch and was overcome with nostalgia thinking of Ricardo and Benjamin who ate there often. The last time Ricardo was a lonely widower and Benjamin told him about his experiments on cactus that ultimately led to cactein in my novel [...]

28 10, 2015

The Relevancers: Sophia Speaks Her Mind

By |2020-04-02T21:32:07-04:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Perpectives, Ricardo Sztein|0 Comments

"Relevance is a malleable term." I had dinner last night with Sophia Lass; bless her sweet nature. Ricardo was lucky to have her as his lawyer in my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes. She begged me not to steal her thunder by divulging the outcome of her efforts. Fair enough. What a ravenous appetite she had, [...]

23 10, 2015

I Consider Myself a Writer

By |2020-04-02T21:32:35-04:00October 23rd, 2015|Categories: Blog, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

I consider myself a writer now, not because I am starting to publish, but because I care so much about how it’s phrased and whether it’s good enough, which it never is. When I gave my friend Warren, who had extensive writing experience, one of my early short stories, he urged me to dispense with [...]

12 10, 2015

Fiction Earns, Science Reveals

By |2020-04-02T21:33:59-04:00October 12th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Perpectives, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

While some might insist that science is strictly factual, I think most would agree that speculation links discrete scientific data – facts – resulting in a narrative that becomes modified with additional data and knowledge. Speculation is not factual. In that sense, I view science as partly fact and partly story, and propose that reality [...]

2 10, 2015

Do Invertebrates Have Minds?

By |2020-03-25T21:51:34-04:00October 2nd, 2015|Categories: Blog, Jellyfish Central, Ricardo Sztein|Tags: |1 Comment

Recently Ricardo stepped out of Jellyfish Have Eyes looking for tell-tale signs that his troubles with science in the mid- 21st century were sinister developments of earlier times. As he suspected, he found an article in The Washington Post that he believed foreshadowed the demise of ivory-towered basic research. I remember that he looked depressed [...]

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