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Hello, friends. Coming to you live here, amid the racket of simulated gunfire in this Internet cafe! [At least I HOPE it's simulated!] ...

Today is my mom's birthday. She is 76 years old today, and I love her. She is not all that well [physically] as many of you may know [I...

News Flash: EASTER SUNDAY CRASH! Computer Meltdown! Bookpuddle is down. Down , I say! [Remember that one scene in "So I Married An Axe-...

Ouija So I turned to a road atlas, in lieu of your Vanilla limbs. My finger along interstates Ran and I said, These are her veins. In blue, ...

← Eric and Pattie ( circa long time ago ). In my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful songs of all time, both lyrically and musically,...

Integrity and honesty, not objectivity and certainty, are the highest virtues to which the theological enterprise can aspire. From this pers...

Have a great Thursday! ********

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What w...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow -- Have a great Tuesday!

-- Montreal -- Some of you may be wondering where I was all weekend. The Bookpuddle has been silent of its usual ripples. Montreal. ...

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from...

Have a great Friday y'all! Followed by a super-duper weekend! ********

“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone.” So begins one of the best chapters of one of the bes...

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. -- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar , 1963 -- Have ...

“...the part of any poem or novel that makes it a work of art doesn’t derive its value from the realm of market exchange. It comes from the ...

“If you make the Most High your dwelling – even the Lord, who is my refuge – then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your t...

Have a great Tuesday! ********

Waiting Rhymes with weighting, and makes me heavy. You know I am going to keep believing in you. The first half-hour I was embarrasse...

So, yesterday I saw Hitler’s car. That’s right. ← The Hitlermobile©. As in, I was not only standing right next to the Hitlermobile , but I ...

human i looked up. they had made their webs in the rafters, these two silent architects. so i knocked them into a foil pan where they lightl...