Wednesday’s Poem: “Adding It Up†by Philip Booth from Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999. Wednesdsay’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the science fiction writer Frank Herbert, born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1920. He was a photographer during WWII. He went to the University of Washington, but he didn’t graduate because he only wanted to study what interested him, so he refused to take the required courses for a major. He worked at newspapers and magazines, and he published his first book,…