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The Dirtiest Word

Can you imagine a doctor deriding another doctor’s treatment because he only prescribed it for medical reasons? Or a teacher sneering that …

I started writing a post about the art and craft of writing when I came up with the title for this post. …

My first blog post was on 1 September 2004. [Believe it or not, many people still do not consider that the most …

Spoiler alert: In this post I discuss specific details of the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. If you haven’t read …

I was a late-comer to Twitter. [Call me slow, sometimes.] I still think that “What are you doing?” was [is] stupid and …

I have a sort of millennium bug up my ass. It’s not exactly a Y2K problem… it’s a Y2KX… no YMMX… well, …

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is an update of a post originally published on 21 November 2006. I garnered three new followers on …

Obviously I am too critical of what I read. I followed LAWKI with books I chose for pure escapism, Sail by James …

I am a fan of some of the shows on the USA cable TV network. I am not a fan of their …

I was indirectly privy to this exchange: Fast food worker after removing an entree from an oven and dropping it on the …

When doctors don’t know the cause of your ailment they may refer to it as idiopathic. It’s sort of a polite way …

Two snails were traveling south. A turtle was traveling west. Two snails were traveling south. A turtle was traveling west. Two snails …