Author Archives: Steven Damron

What does the planet look like in a year? I wrote this note to myself last Friday. The NY Times beat me to an answer. The Times gives both sides of the story, on the one hand that science and technology are making enormous strides, on the other that everyone still could be cooped upContinue reading “20 April 2020 – Monday – #36”

The US has boarded Covid Air flight 19 with Captain Trump in command. The only gauge in the cockpit is the only one he needs to get us where we’re all going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average. No need for fancy altimeters or air speed indicators. These babies practically fly themselves. The regulators say weContinue reading “19 April 2020 – Sunday – #35”

I’m half way through proof reading what I think is the final draft of Dear Mustafa, a novel set in the times of AIDS, of Loma Prieta, and of 9/11, three other disasters I’ve lived through. Dear Mustafa is clocking in at a little over hundred thousand words. What seems weird to me is howContinue reading “18 April 2020 – Saturday – #34”