Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • The book was waiting for me. It was a moment when you can’t help believing in fate. I’ve been compiling a list of books to discuss with fellow writers at a workshop I’m giving in June. I want a range of voices and genres, and woke up one morning in early January thinking to include…

  • Bison probably don’t top the list of charismatic mega fauna you’d see in San Francisco. But there they were, right in the heart of Golden Gate Park on a sunny Friday afternoon. They do top my “unexpected encounters with bison” list. Second on that list would be the time I spotted a wood bison, grazing…

  • I’ve been playing with Anthropic’s AI tool, titled Claude, which turns out to be a pretty good name for this not-very nimble tool. First the good news. I took the AI out for a spin, asking for fairly straightforward searches online, giving it a couple of previous blogs and asking for an edit. (Note: it’s…