How do you say happy birthday to a child of one’s loins? There are many ways. One way to show closeness to the child is by saying that they are a chip off the old block. Of course, there are some children who would not want that. What do some children want in this current…

Do you remember when everyone thought that e-books would spell the death of books? It didn’t happen, and if anything, books are more popular now than when e-books appeared on the scene. Why? Is the reason that books are tangible sensory objects, that digital writing surfaces cannot match? That’s what some people have said. But…

Ah, desiderata. Ah, life turning people into zombies. Writing for Flying Twigs in the digital age is easy. That is, it is easy to tread a well worn path and pump out yet more vacuous words. Desktop publishing is at everyone’s command. And the end result? The sheer quantity of written material on the Web…