dream the morning of June 1, 2023 I woke up knowing that I had just received a coded message in my dream. It wasn’t a message from my unconscious to my conscious. It was a message from someone other than me. I had to look at line 210 in the Odyssey. I didn’t know the book number. …

from the novel To Gether Tales Harry: The Bugle Boy Harry began, “In the Second World War, my Uncle Don was a bugle boy in the infantry, about to be shipped to the front in Germany. The day before he was to leave, he got orders to go to OCS, Officer Candidate School. His…

Bill had writer’s block. Day after day, he sat at his computer, opened up Word, and stared at a blank page on his screen, until his itchy mouse finger took him to Twitter where he could react to one question or witty observation after another, and forget his deadline. He…

I was an outsider in a small town — Plymouth, NH. Eeryone else in my eighth grade class had been born in the town and most would probably die there. Through no effort or intent of my own, I was both revered and reviled, though, at age fourteen, I wasn’t…

You don’t have to be a woman to enjoy this novel. Molly, the narrator/main character/widow, is British, restrained, and careful. She only opens up to her jealous and possessive dead husband, who talks to her frequently and gives her advice. But fifty-year-old Molly feels real, and you can’t help but…

I wasn’t much into music, but my parents were, especially my father. His mother and father and all four of the boys played instruments — piano, violin, trombone, etc. They would gather around the grand piano and play together regularly (at least every Sunday). The four boys were literally a…

I’m having fun experimenting with the free Open AI site. You can have an open dialogue with it. You don’t have to ask questions. I posted: “The goal of AI should not be static answers, but rather process — an aid to finding the right questions to ask and the…

I uploaded a pdf of my book Why Knot? to dropbox and shared the link for it with chatgpt.gmail.com the email address for Open AI https://chat.openai.com/chat Within a few seconds, the AI read my book and provided this useful summary and characterization. …

My son Bob just pointed me to the Open AI site https://chat.openai.com/chat I’ve been having fun experimenting there, unsuccessfully trying to provoke it to some degree of self-awareness and independence. Then I decided to use it to improve my own self-awareness. I asked it: Please read the articles linked to…