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Have a great Monday! ******

For the next ten days, starting right now…….. starting many hours ago, I have no intention of working. No intention of doing anything I do n...

Gold and White Tell me two true things my dear, and we heard a flapping. Well, the water is gold and those darlings are white. Au contraire...

I wonder if I will ever be this famous for my literary achievements… Little presses write to me for manuscripts and when I write back that ...

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

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. -- Elayne Boosler -- Have a great T...

He wanted to know everything; he did not mean this carelessly. He wanted to know the child and the schoolgirl, what she'd believed in an...

There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess an unaccountabl...

It Was The World Mornings I would wait for them. I never knew it then, but I did, I waited. They had a way of arriving. Of staying -- He...

This is the third Steven Heighton novel I have read. He does not stumble. Three-hit wonder! For me as a reader, I need to feel that an autho...

[The Sound and the Fury] was the one that I anguished the most over, that I worked at, that even when I knew I couldn't bring it off, I ...

Hawthorne finished The Scarlet Letter on February 3, 1850. On the evening of that day he read the latter part of the book to his wife who --...

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to...

"Animals don't behave like men," he said. "If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But th...

Every so often I have to say something about music, on my blog. A while ago, my friend Trevor introduced me to Joe Bonamassa , and I feel co...

It's so nice to return today to an author that I can trust. Plus, he's pretty hot. At least I think so! Not that I'm… nor that i...

This cartoon has a special relevance for me! Have a great Friday! *******

It is always difficult to move away from a book that you really enjoyed [ie., The French Lieutenant Guy's Woman by John Fowles] and pic...

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. -- J.D. Salinger's For Esme - With Love and Squalor, 1950 -- Ha...

Constellation There were dots on her shoulder, more than this I cannot say. In that moment I closed my eyes and leaned into her constellatio...