A year ago, I threw in the towel.  By then my memoir had received more than 100 agent rejections.  Presuming the fault was mine, I decided to rewrite the manuscript. The editor I’d hired to critique the original draft had called that version “literature.” She and I were the on

Last week, 3 Kenyans on my Facebook list unfriended me. I’d mentioned I was an atheist which caused one woman to call me a fool before disconnecting. I wasn’t surprised by her reaction. For centuries, non-believers have suffered contempt or even death at the hands of those with fa

Despite the misinformation he’s allowed to spread on Facebook,  I admire Mark Zuckerberg’s intention to create a global community that can promote human understanding. To foresee the many ways his dream could be misused would require the powers of Nostradamus, so I don’t hold h