I suspect it won't give me high marks for taste, but it works for me...

Sadly, and from my own experience, I'd say that mostly the turns of life, and rarely (ir)rational arguments, can make someone change their mind on anything. I am in my 60s and went back and forth through nearly the whole spectrum of political, social, religious views in my lifetime. Though I haven't ...

Well, I am digressing a bit here, but the old adage runs true when applied literally: "do not judge a book by its cover!" One major issue nowadays is that book covers are increasingly moving away from the artistic endeavor to a marketing one. This is especially the case in the self-publishing ...

I hear you, and I feel exactly the same. Social media pay lip-service to creators, but what they do is turning artists and writers into entrepreneurs with everyone competing for the spotlight and buying into the promises of marketing tools. I am nowhere to be found except on tumblr. As an obscure ...