Image via Wikipedia As an author, the issues of literacy and book purchasing always interest me. And since I write mysteries, I also like a good detective story. So when the two combined this morning, I had to write a quick post about it. Yesterday, a friend pointed me to an article decrying the lack [...]
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Literacy Means More than Reading
Posted in Housekeeping, Mental Health, Research, Thinking Out Loud, tagged literacy, misinformation on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Near-Far Metaphor
Posted in Mental Health, Thinking Out Loud, tagged Parody, Saturday Night Live on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia A news story today brought to mind the conceptual metaphor of near-far. The headline of the story captures it perfectly: “Paterson’s Office Says SNL Went Too Far.” Using a distance metaphor is interesting when it comes to parodies or mockery, but when you consider that truth is an approximation (“close to the [...]
The War Metaphor
Posted in Mental Health, Thinking Out Loud on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In his new book “Remix,” Lawrence Lessig begins by considering how comfortable Americans are with using war as a metaphor for strong action or intervention, as in the War on Drugs or the War on Terror. Other cultures are less comfortable with war as a metaphor for action. Lessig’s analysis of metaphors would make Johnny [...]
The Brain Food Store is Now Open
Posted in Housekeeping, Mental Health, News on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Image by via CrunchBase Brain food is the most important kind. While your epidermis is the largest organ of your body, your brain is the most unique. Feeding it requires new and well-chosen meals with a variety and freshness that your other systems don’t demand. With that in mind, I’ve created a small boutique on [...]
Parallelism Comes to Life
Posted in Mental Health, Thinking Out Loud on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia Johnny recently told me about a case he just closed. It involved him getting ill as part of solving it. The way he described the illness, I had no problem writing it up in preparation for another book about a fascinating case. I’d just finished writing it up when I left on [...]
Johnny’s Rant on “Strategy”
Posted in Mental Health, Thinking Out Loud on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I was talking with Johnny, and he had obviously watched the first presidential debate. He was particularly incensed by the abuse of the word “strategy” by both candidates, but especially by John McCain. Johnny’s main beef with how they were using the term comes from the fact that neither would really point to any [...]
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