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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. -- Robert Louis Steven...

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we m...

I really liked the last book I read and wanted to recommend it to my readers, even though I may be one of the last people on earth to have...

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its...

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Other writers are like a garden diligently planted and watered, but Shakespeare a forest where the oaks and elms toss their branches to th...

I'm quite a fan of "remaindered books". I think it goes hand in hand with the fact that I am also a fan of "not spendin...

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy i...

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than...

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Umm... is it just me? Or does Ellen DeGeneres look a lot like Henry David Thoreau? Have a great Friday! *****

Last year was not a benchmark year for me, reading-wise. Nor, blogging-wise. I'm speaking of quantity , in both respects. In all, I r...

A very Merry Christmas to all of my friends at Bookpuddle. Here is a real uplifting message -- the very words I would like to say to you al...

"America…is being lost through television. Because in advertising, mendacity and manipulation are raised to the level of internal val...

On my last vacation [to Saskatchewan] we all went to this one park where the birds were so tame we had them eating out of our hands. Here...

Took this pic at my favorite Starbucks last night. It's interesting. Have a great Thursday! *****

I have a current theory that is making its way across the circuits of my brain, repeatedly, and it goes something like this: The more inte...

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature throu...