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Oprah said she used prayer to help her decide to end her show. She said she stopped praying when she realized she has more money than the gu...

Mom’s Rhubarb Pie Who would think that green dragon wings in the garden corner, clustered in a coven could be attached to someth...

It's the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. Before that, the only way to get from East Germany to West Germany was your da...

In the area of writerly exaggeration, Daniel Baciagalupo was a born exaggerator! -- From Chapter 5 of John Irving's, Last Night In Twis...

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity...

There's a new poll out on the sexiest accent. It's the Irish accent. I thought, "No way! It's not even an accent. They'...

Ayez un jour splendide! *******

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they ...

I am not an optimist, generally. Nor that great when it comes to grammar, as the above sentence proves, ending as it does, in one of those ...

Worsted Yes. Nice try. And I was born last night in a barn! He lifts the two end tiles -- The word means yarn, she pleads, slapping them bac...

........ about me! OK, today at work, it was a little slow at work, really -- I was all alone all day in a huge warehouse and it was weird...

If we had a keen vision and feeling for all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, ...

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. -- Anna Magnani -- Have a great Thursday!

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader...

Well folks, it's happened again. This time at Heathrow Airport. A pilot was pulled off a United Airlines jet before take-off because he ...

First lady Michelle Obama was on Sesame Street today showing children how to plant their own healthy vegetable gardens. Then the kids said, ...

There’s always been this hunger for fantasy. The world has always been awful, the world’s always sucked, mostly because of the things people...

A Piece of Sunset There you are, washing the egg-flipper. No. Not somewhere else, but right here, same world I inhabit. Same walls. Same bil...

Have a great Friday! ******

It is always exhilarating to " discover " an author one has not read before. I've mentioned this concept of "discovery...