Why Kalliope? And why am I blogging?

Kalliope is the Muse of heroic poetry. Now, granted, I don't write poetry, but I do try to write heroic fiction.

Last week I finished my outline of The Oracle, my new novel. This outline took a month to do, several hours each day.

Today, I wrote my first three scenes. I am out of practice so I will rewrite ... and rewrite ... but at least my ideas after my walk beat my ideas before my walk, so I'm thrilled to make a little bit of progress in one day.

This blog will describe my voyage.

Plus a few other thoughts along the way. Like why are we letting Obama send 30,000 more young troops to Afghanistan, when we should be pulling our country out of war altogether and doing something to rebuild our own nation. As if we could ever rebuild Afghanistan. What hubris!

Finally people will realize that the Democrats and the Republicans are owned by the same masters -- those profiteering banks and corporations that are enslaving the rest of us.

Onward to tomorrow.