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Have a great Monday! *****

Dear Friends, I have been rather blog-vacant as of late. But don't be jealous. I've been a little bit of everything -vacant late...

 Have a great Friday! *****

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! Sincerely -- Cip --

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his yo...

I love the Calgary, Alberta [Canada] airport. For one thing, when I am connecting to a flight to Eastern Canada, I usuall...

What can I say? I just wish this beautiful retreat was mine, mine, MINE! Have a great [the world did not end] Friday! *****

She had always wondered at the bravery of it. The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they ...

Letterman's Top 10 Top 10 Least Popular Children's Books 10. The Little Intern That Could. 9. You've Got an Infecte...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true a...

But let's assume that God exists. As long as God doesn't intervene after He or She released the grand pendulum, then there's ...

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot -- [I can totally relate to this ...

This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortun...

 Have a great Wednesday! *****

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You fin...

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too,...

I don't like pain of any kind. [Who does, right?] But when I say I don't like pain, I mean I am actually quite wimpy about it. I h...

As of tonight, when guests enter my apartment [which, admittedly, is a bit of a rarity] the first thing they will see is a Modigliani prin...

Have a great Friday! *****

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language...