Say what?
April 14, 2015 -- Say the word “writer,” and most people think of an author of fiction. But there are many kinds of writers, aren’t there? Authors of fiction and nonfiction, poets, lyricists, composers, science writers, journalists, academic writers, literary critics, theater critics, art critics, textbook writers, screenwriters, playwrights, essayists, technical writers – I could go on and on. As a blogger, I’m keenly sensitive to others’ rights to privacy, and that sensitivity severely restricts what I write about when blogging. For my husband and me, the main events in our lives this past winter and early spring have involved important events for others, and so I just could not very well blog about those events without violating others’ privacy – hence the big gap in this blog. Now I will say this. My husband (who is a writer of textbooks and academic books) and I (a science writer and blogger) are buying a house from a woman (an academic write...