by Martha Franks | Jun 8, 2020
John Adams—Round-headed but Right. Confucius—Serious Eyebrows When I taught a class in American Law at a Chinese high school I gave my students the United States Constitution to read, and we talked about the Rule of Law. This is the principle that the law is higher...
by Martha Franks | May 26, 2020
Writing Challenges It was a proto-blogger, the sports columnist Red Smith, who was asked if it was hard to turn out a column a day and responded “Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.” On the other hand, the science fiction writer and...
by Martha Franks | May 19, 2020
Herodotus—Father of History, Father of Lies I came late to writing. I often said I wanted to be a writer, but few words flowed and those had not much direction. It was as if I said I wanted to travel but had no idea of any particular place I wanted to go. Also, the...
by Martha Franks | May 5, 2020
Welcome to Respondeo Books! We want to hear and encourage responses to the world. It is our experience that there are moments when, in answer to something outside, an unexpected part of us wakes up and is moved to speak or write or paint or sing or generally to...
