Dog Days of Summer 2017 - Beagle Stories
Everywhere we go with Chance, which is to say everywhere that he goes with us, there are people telling beagle stories. It seems that...
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Aug 1, 2017
August 2017 - Think Pink
Think Pink: The Period Not the punctuation mark but — the monthly female event for women of childbearing age. It has been my experience...
Jul 24, 2017
Hockey Summer Camp 2017 - Patrick Marleau
Shark Bait And so it happened. Patrick Marleau wore out not his welcome but those few carpets in his home in San Jose. He has jumped the...
Jul 14, 2017
Bastille Day 2017 - Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf, Broken-Wing Sparrow It was always an incongruity for me, the love that my French-Algerian tutor of Parisian French held for...
Jul 4, 2017
Independence Day 2017 - Ins and Outs
My aversion to joining any group is so intense that when I briefly joined an online current-events commentary club, one of my first...
Jul 4, 2017
The Double-Yankee-Doodle-Dandy
3 July 2017 When we first brought Chance home, we knew that this beagle had some very large paws to fill, although his paws are quite...
Jul 3, 2017
July 2017 - The Great Crayola Controversy
This past week, Dear Husband was clearing out his desk during the final days before he got out of the Pen: Retirement after Federal...
Jul 1, 2017
Summer 2017 - The Death of the Mall
Friends and Family - Summer Shopping The Death of the Mall Balzac wrote, “A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity,” and so I shall...
Jun 27, 2017
Backstory - Point of the Sword
The Summer of 2017 The summer of 2017 started as a more-or-less typical summer, hot-beyond-belief and open to unscheduled fun. I always...
Jun 21, 2017
Composing The Westerns - Introduction
Summer 2017 Composing The Westerns During my Suburban Phase, I earned a few extra dollars here and there, beyond the few extra dollars...
Jun 20, 2017
Mid-Summer-Eve 2017 - The Abominable Snowman and the Snowflakes
20 June 2017 I must ride the heat wave; and, at times, I must work with my happy ignorance, instead of working against it in the earnest...
Jun 15, 2017
Mid-June 2017 - Art and the Artist
The Writer Speaks: Art and the Artist It often amuses me, the idea that art just happens! It mystically comes winging out of the cloud of...
Jun 6, 2017
D-Day 2017 - Meditation on the Bitter Woods
6 June 2017 This day began gray, overcast, chilly, but by noon it brightened to a glimmer of sunlight. I decided to wear a tropical...
May 15, 2017
Mid-May 2017 - The Corporation is Always Wrong
During the summer of 2012, I told my Dear Friend: “I’m not making my fortune until there is massive tax reform. And I am not flying on...
May 10, 2017
May 2017 - How Do You Still Keep Your Job?
Special Weather Briefing: How Do You Still Keep Your Job? “How many times can you be wrong and still keep your job?” It is a question...
May 1, 2017
May 2017 - What a Tale! - The Falcon
One balmy evening last spring, I sat down on my leather couch, intent on enjoying the next story in A Medieval Storybook (selected and...
Apr 17, 2017
Tax Day USA 2017
15 April 2017 Taxes were the primary reason why I was hectored, or bugged, by many much-older adults to get a better-paying job during...
Apr 1, 2017
April 2017 - Character Development
In the course of human events, we all come upon real characters. How precisely does a writer create a fictional character? The answer is...
Mar 21, 2017
Book Two: Arthur
Composing L’AUBE Update In early March 2017, I decided to come to an all-stop, an operational pause, a personal and professional halt in...
Mar 17, 2017
Céad Míle Fáilte
March 2018 Cead Mile Failte A Hundred Thousand Welcomes! In Irish Gaelic, it's spelled Céad Míle Fáilte. In Gaelic (Scottish), Ceud Mìle...
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