Mirka Muse

  The above is not a simple matter. This applies to every notion and decision on life’s journey, but writers know it as how to handle critic...

Growing up in Israel, September 1 st was the first day of the school year. No matter what else would suggest bumping the beginning of our t...

DH, one of the original techies (he designed both hardware and software when few knew what those “wares” were) mocks the big to-do about AI....

There’s a much-used axiom that starts with “There are two kinds of people. The first… .” One can replace the “two” with any number. The po...

  a.k.a ROMI PROGRESS REPORT You might recall we adopted a new cat . DH named her Romi. Romi spent the first six days hiding under a bed i...

  In my growing up years I observed how the adults in my life would get together with friends to have “coffee & Cake” and good conversat...

  Or— YES, THERE IS SUCH A THING AS OVERSHARING   I had a friend who, in conversations with near strangers in the space of one minute,...

  If you haven’t heard the term breakout novel , a short definition would be – “A breakout novel is a book that dramatically elevates an a...

A few years ago, my then agent sent to all his writers a short list of what an editor he knew was looking for. One item on the editor’s wish...

  Meet Romi.* She is now our new cat. *DH Chose to re-name her, in lieu of her shelter name "Elsa." She is people shy and fo...

  CALM YOURSELF, THE STORM WILL PASS   Some months back, I found myself in the middle of a cascading chain of events that made no sense,...

  ASIMON: A token (from Greek: ἄσημον ("ἀ-σεμον"), "without a sign", in the language of the Sages) is a means of payment...

 Just as I was about to scream at the maddening younger folks who seem to live in their phones that “LIFE IS NOT INSIDE YOUR PHONES, people!...

  As we stand now, in mid-2026, printed paper books still reign supreme in Kidlit.   Children, as it turns out, haven’t flocked to eBook...

  “Every day, computers make people easier to use.” Paulina Borsook (In her book “Cyberselfish”)     ‘Tis a truth (almost) univers...

  Are you, like me, tickled by oxymorons? Oxymoron : “ a figure of speech in which apparently  contradictory  terms appear in conjunction....

  On May 19 , 1536, Anne   Boleyn , the infamous second wife of King Henry   VIII  is executed on  charges including adultery, incest and co...

 THIS BLOG IS ON A BREAK UNTIL MAY 19th  MIRKA MUSE is recharging 👉See you then👈

Or- “COLORS IN THE MOUNTAINS”   I first learned the power of words when I was four years old. It was a lesson in marketing for wee-me....

                                                                     Or— "NOTHING IS CERTAIN EXCEPT DEATH AND TAXES" Benjamin ...

  A few weeks ago, while minding my own business, a knock on my kitchen door snapped me out of my trance of contemplating what I should make...

            GOT ME EVERY TIME Or— Get ready, for tomorrow they come😈 With the mélange of news that verge on the absurd, the factoids ...

  As I’m rounding my fourth draft of my WIP, a novel for middle grades, I reflect on the process and how it has changed over my writing year...

When I first heard the expression “luck of the Irish,” it was from a person of Irish ancestry. Not wanting to question his Irishness or expo...

  ON THIS DATE, MARCH 10 TH , IN 1876 … From that first ever telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell and to this day, the world would neve...

 The above goes under the caption “BEST ADVICE I EVER GOT.”   Life is full of Nos.   First, there are your parents, who are doing th...