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Well here we are at the last night of 2010 -- a time when I can reflect upon the 50 books I read this past year. There have been a few that ...

Freud: Anna, although I am your father, as part of your education I must show you my penis so you understand certain fundamental concepts. ...

"And why are writers bad at relationships?" "Because we can always imagine better ones. With much less effort. And the imagin...

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and th...

I'm finding that size does matter! For a long while now I have been itching to get to this new biography of author Mordecai Richler. I...

About a year ago… actually a little more than a year ago I began to realize that my eyesight ain't what it used to be. I even wrote abou...

A very MERRY CHRSTMAS to you! All the best to you, dear friends, in 2011! *******

Have a great "Holiday" Eve Friday! *******

A friend of mine just started his own business. He manufactures landmines that look like prayer mats. It's doing well. He says prophets ...

One morning when Winnie-the-Pooh was Doing Nothing Very Much, but doing it rather well, he thought he would call on his old friend Christoph...

Have a great Tuesday! *******

"Possibly Not and Possibly Not and Possibly Not," said Eeyore, "and three Possiblys add up to one Probably." -- from Ret...

Yesterday I took my new 2010 Mazda 3 in for its first servicing. While my car was up on the hoist I sauntered around the showroom and looked...

So this very evening after work while I was up at the Starbucks counter getting a refill of my Grande Bold coffee I noticed that they were d...

At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gon...

Have a great Thursday! *******

My wife asked me, "How many women have you slept with?" I said, "Only you. With all the others I was awake." -- Rodney D...

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of know...

Eleven years ago today, my father passed away after a lengthy battle with congestive heart failure. Dec.13th, 1999 -- just before the New Mi...

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9/11; you can't not integrate it....