Are You Privileged? Recent History May Tell
This week I’m tackling a hard subject. In the novel I’m writing, one character is biologically immortal. He’s 251. He’s been in the US Marines for nearly his entire life. […]
Category Archives: Culture and Society
Where Adulthood Begins in an Ageless Society
When did you feel you had finally become an adult? Was it age 18? High school or college graduation? When a child was born to you? Like me, was it […]
Living Forever For One Day
If you had to relive one day for all eternity and you would never age, what day would you choose? Movies like Groundhog Day and more recently, Miss Peregrines School […]
The Language of Longevity
If someone from Elizabethan England were still living, would they find themselves saying, “What think ye?” rather than “What do you think?” As a novelist, I have to make a […]
Day in the Life of a Millennial Tour Guide
The rolling tundra stretches on for miles and the tour coaches’ diesel engine rattles. We stop for a twenty minute break so the visitors to Alaska can see the first […]
Would you share immortality?
If you discovered a treatment that allowed people to stay alive (and healthy) in their own bodies indefinitely, would you share it? Portions of the novel I’m writing deal with […]
Do any cultures not believe in immortality?
I visited a cathedral during Semana Santa in Ecuador. I knelt in a buddhist temple in Thailand. Then recently, while staring at the screen trying to find a subject for […]
