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Dear Friends: It is true that lately I have been a lot less than... bloggerific! Sort of in a slump as to writing, and even reading, I'l...

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, impo...

This weekend's Trifecta Challenge sounded like a real hoot, so I gave it a go. Here are the parameters, the "prompt" -- follo...

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need? -- Steven Wright -- Ha...

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself f...

Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly tha...

Have a great Tuesday! *****

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. -- Jonathan Franzen , How To Be Alone -- Have a great Monday! ******

Here is this weekend's prompt from the Trfiecta Writing Challenge : We want you to give us a re-telling of the classic Goldilocks and th...

I like when people in the Saturday Snapshot loop will post a real vintage picture of their parents or whatnot. Those old sepia things. Here ...

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit ...

It is unusual for me to get a cold, even in the depths of winter. But to get one in mid-April is [I think] unprecedented. But I sure do have...

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the ...

April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect ...

I've watched a tonload of those "First Dance" videos on YouTube and there's a lot of really good ones, but his one is just...

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a c...

Old Mr. Prickly Pin [ For Beatrix ] You know that the blue is clashing so. Tell us all who loaned you those shoes. Hiding the sides of them ...

Well, this morning I awoke early and went to a Used Book Sale at the ol' Community Hall on Springfield Road. Wow, there was no shortage ...

You know, I was already missing the living presence of Christopher Hitchens, but then an article like this shows up in my latest issue of Fr...

Have a great Friday! ******