Category: writing

How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • 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…

  • Emily Carr evokes the eery feeling that unexpected utter darkness evokes. The Canadian artist thought a meeting she often went to would be in its usual location in a Victoria BC theater. She liked to sit in the balcony for these meetings. That meeting didn’t happen. Here’s what she noted about the experience. I must…

  • What a challenging few days it’s been, watching the news, hearing the yelling match across the divide of people who see different things in the videos of the shooting of an American citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. In the middle of all that, I stumbled on a New York Times interview with…