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I admit I am but a fledgling Hemingway reader. Definitely not yet an aficionado of the canon! There are times when I still falter over his...

Watching A Boat Upon this pier the boat becomes a mirror of emotion. You are the breeze trapped in its sails I, the windless ocean. And like...

Not to be aware of the reader’s presence is sort of like being in a room with somebody and ignoring them, which I don’t think is an acceptab...

People have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. -- Bill Clinton , Aug.27, 2008 – Have a...

← Now here is something to be excited about, dear Readers. A new book by Jose Saramago . Death With Interruptions. It’s not yet release...

OCEAN , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce , 1911 -- Have a great W...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That...

“You don’t train for a silver.” -- Shawn Johnson, Olympic Gold Medalist – I shamelessly admit, I fell in love with this young woman last Tue...

I was horrified. No. MORTIFIED! More embarrassed than I have been in a long while! MORTIFICATION! mortify: verb ( -fies, -fied) ...

…that is the question. Or rather, in the following case… “How to kill” is perhaps the question. I am interrupting my wonderful vacation to...

Just dropping by to say I am having a fabulous vacation. The wedding was wonderful. I am thoroughly enjoying the fact that even now, as I t...

Hello Friends: It is very early in the morning… it is still night, actually. I was “untimely ripp’t” from the cozy bed! But the...

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

Once we move outside the boundaries of dogmatic Catholicism and Hinduism, both positions can be seen to have deep flaws. Consciousness is un...

I'm not proud of biting the head off a bat. I'm not proud of having attention deficit disorder. But I'm a real guy...It could be...

The other day I finished reading Middlemarch . What an amazing book. Truly, I loved it. Then I was driving home and it started raining. No…....

Reindeer It is appropriate that the name is unchanged Whether singular or plural. For tonight I saw one, Seeming to bow for ...

Is there ever a “good” time to have problems with one’s wisdom teeth? The short answer is, “NO!” But for me, right now… the long answer...

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

A man vows, and yet will not cast away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desire...