Month: January 2009

In my books God’s Debris and The Religion War I imagined a world where there is only “one Avatar at a time.” This Avatar, an old man who is the smartest human in the world, has only one duty: When the people of the world get attached to destructive ideas, as they tend to…

The other day I was at the Small Dog Park. It’s a fenced area where dogs under 20 pounds can frolic with each other. I was chatting with a friend, whose dog is named Indy, about a movie I just watched involving a dog named Marley. After my friend left,…