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I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it...

I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me because of the image they’ve made of me – and that I’ve made of myself as a sex symbol...

Well, as my faithful readers know, I really love great music. If you had asked me yesterday if any musical group could ever rival Pink Floyd...

This above all — to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- Hamlet ...

A few weeks ago I listened to a CBC radio interview with novelist Sandra Gulland [author of the Josephine B . trilogy et al] and one of the...

I had no idea I was ever this cute! I had inklings, but no real concrete evidence , until now. Yes folks, these photos are of ME ! Me me me ...

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness....

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart -- fil...

“Your people got any wolf stories?”
 -- Erastus Hammer – Effigy , by Alissa York. ← Believe it or not, a real wol...

Once again we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes in his own way, by going to the mall of his choic...

Relax! Relax , animal lovers everywhere! I am an animal lover, too! The only way I would ever shoot an animal is if it was going to shoo...

Here We Are Now How can I sleep, leaving so much unread. Notice, it’s not a question. How can I leave here with so much unwritte...

“I will love you forever,” swears the poet. I find this easy to swear. “I will love you at 4:15 p.m. next Tuesday”: Is that still as easy? -...

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredie...

One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary ...

Pullman His dark materials, indeed. Here is a man that set something ablaze in me. I read the first one with a gr...

← Alissa York. It’s probably one of the most self-centered of things we say, “I’ve discovered a great new author.” A) The author is proba...

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be havin...

Squirrel Oh, so humiliating, to be reduced To such – such irreducibility. To have this one, accentuating feature so – so – a...

Two bored male casino dealers are waiting at the craps table. A very attractive woman arrives and bets $20,000 on a single roll of the dice....