Its working title is My Place in Space and Time: The Long Journey Home. Doing lots and lots of scientific research, which is a rare pleasure since all my post-secondary education was in the humanities and arts. But this stuff has always fascinated me, and when I wrote my children’s trilogy, “The Lunch Bunch”, the protagonist, Bernadette Inez O’Brien Schwartz, was always performing experiments and wanted to be a scientist when she grew up
No time like the present to explore other lives that might have been, right?
Also, I just realized that my limited patience for reading philosophy and literary theory and inexhaustible curiosity about science is deeply embedded in the way my mind works. I have always preferred “HOW” questions to “WHY” questions. Long ago I learned that the “why” questions that have answers can usually be translated into “how” questions: for example, “Why is the sky blue?” is really asking “How do our eyes perceive colour?” All my literary criticism adopts this stance: for example, instead of asking “Why is this poem beautiful?” I prefer to explore how the sound, rhythm, sense, and imagery interact to create a harmonious effect.