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Can someone, anyone out there, please tell me how it can already be the month of March? No, seriously, though. In a matter of hours, it wil...

Well, I finally finished the Frank Lloyd Wright biography. WOW! What a wild book! What a wild life! Today I am going to begin reading Sara G...

A really big turn-off for me, is astrology. What I mean by a “turn-off” is that if I met someone and they began to speak about “their sign” ...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to des...

It was such an awesome surprise to come home after work, well, after Starbucks , after work… and find something crammed into my mailbox in t...

Have a great Wednesday! *********

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.” -- Philip Pullman -- Have a...

Why does anyone write a poem? Because they have to write one. If they could have done something else with the moments they’ve given to the c...

Cranberry Lake An August sun baked our canoe Where we had beached it, in the sand. And, taking your small hand Toward shade,...

Well, tonight I very nearly had that massive coronary thrombosis that I am forever expecting. I was sitting at the Starbucks in Chapters, as...

Have a great Friday! *********

This past Christmas, I got a George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine© as a gift. In fact, it's the Super Champ Limited ...

The difference between a good play and a great play is that after the experience of a great play we understand a little bit more about why w...

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real a...

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship By Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman. I hate being t...

A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy f...

It is so nice to sleep in late today! It is "Family Day" here in Ontario, and the first ever. A newly instituted statutory holiday...

I Do It Again The toe pads of my cat are pink as a fairy gown, And sometimes I tug on the tufts of white hair That emerge betwee...

The following is an excerpt from the February Harper’s Magazine [page 30]. It is from actual recordings of senior German officers in captivi...

Let Me Kiss Your Tongue What happened next, I love. No questions. You did not hesitate. Someone may have had something to ask. ...