Monday, December 31, 2018
Happy New Year!
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Read in 2018
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So, I did hit my goal of reading at least 1,000 pages a month, bit by chewy bit. Reading books for the 2018 Whitney Awards helped a bit, t...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
That's What Christmas is All About, Charlie Brown
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Monday, December 24, 2018
"God Bless All of You, All of You on the Good Earth."
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I've had a tradition in years past to share the "That's What Christmas is All About, Charlie Brown," speech on this blo...
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Be Still, and Know that I Am God
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I know it’s an ad. And if I were in England and had the opportunity, I might shop at Sainsbury’s thanks to this ad. But the truthfulness ...
Friday, December 21, 2018
Fake News is A Problem. And Some Journalists Are Making it Worse.
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NOTE: I do not confess to being a good journalist; that’s why I got out of the business more than a decade ago. I screwed things up and made...
Thursday, December 20, 2018
"Round About Now . . . "
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Round about now, you’re probably expecting an “I’m going to finish Doleful Creatures if it kills me” post. Because this is usually the tim...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Spoon River Revisited: Ahmed Youssef
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When I was seventeen years old My grandfather took me on the hajj We circled the Kaaba the required seven times Then he packed my family ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Clear the Snow Off Your Solar Panels, or, Don't Believe the Salesman -- Who Knew?
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Take this as clear evidence that if you have solar panels in a snowy climate, remove the snow as soon as possible. Although, as I’m always...
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Hubris' Tale
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Inspired by " Mr. Seguin's Goat / Le Chevre de M. Seguin ," by Alphonse Daudet. I’d have been better off had Nan not been so...
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