: About Me

I have always recorded my ideas, impressions, feelings,
and images onto paper since I was a little kid. Also lists of all kinds. My life is a confetti of such snippets scribbled onto envelopes, dinner napkins, notebooks, whatever is handy when an insight hits me. The technical name for such compulsive writing is "hypergraphia". I write, there I am.

Nonetheless, I never tried to turn my passion into profit. I went for a secure, practical profession and have only recently discovered blogging. After much protest, nearly twenty years worth, I have finally accepted that the Industrial Age is over and the Information Age is here to stay. Who knows? I may even decide I like it.

My passion is ...

just to be authentically me.

I know too much about ...

death. WAY TOO MUCH.

My parents always told me ...

the most outrageous things that I stupidly believed.

My childhood ambition ...

was to find an umbrella that would let me fly like Mary Poppins.

My favorite memory ...

was turning eights on pylons with my father whose only positive word to me was that I would make a good pilot.

Why I write ...

catharsis

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

currently the French films of Louis Malle.

My first job ...

was the best one in terms of the fun I had.

My best moment ...

when I did the right thing and saved the life of my arch enemy.

My inspiration ...

ephemeral, elusive. I can find it but I can't hold onto it.

Arts & Humanities > History (Other) The sinking of the Titanic: Unavoidable tragedy or careless accident?

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The sinking of the Titanic can be understood on many different levels, both realistically and symbolically. Did it have to happen? Only God knows. But the fact that it did happen leaves a cautionary warning for posterity. As when Icarus flew too close to the Sun, the mighty were brought low. While not intentionally a careless accident, too much pride was calculated into the risk. The Titanic was deemed unsinkable. Even the name "Titanic" defies failure. No doubt society's well heeled would have not set foot aboard had they an inkling of what was to soon befall them. Like the creme de la cr...

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