“When You Say ‘Ohfahn’ do you mean ‘frequently’ or ‘a person who has lost his parents’?”

I’m here in the midst of cornfields and Amish Country visiting family, researching my book and trying to out-will my health issues. I’ve kicked my 16yearold niece off her computer so that I could hide Mafia Wars updates on FB and decided to stay and write. If I don’t write I start to get twisty [...]

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Disgusting People

Yesterday several of the folks I follow on Twitter sent around a link to a website that I’ll not repeat here. The basic gist of it was that people all over the country upload photos they’ve taken of other customers at a well-known, oft-despised discount store. As you can imagine there are photos upon photos [...]

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We Are Wizards: Harry Potter As A Way Of Life (?)

So I couldn’t sleep and decided to watch this documentary on my handy Netflix Instant. I’d heard a lot about it but avoided it because….well…we’ll get there. I’m a Harry Potter fan. By that I mean that I’ve read the books score(s) of times, can answer pretty much any question about the literary canon and [...]

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Illegal Immigration

I seem to have temporarily lost my ability to write passable post titles. Sorry. Over the past few years I’ve found myself having a bit of a change of heart about this topic. But before I go into matters I need to clarify one specific thing. I have no respect for people who pride themselves [...]

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Time And Change

It occurs to me that I’ve been writing a lot of entries on big political issues and little books. This gives me the pride of being able to say I’m faithful to my blog while still dancing around the bigger boulders in my life that I’d rather not address head on. I’m having a hard [...]

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Is Not My Friend

I have this kind of snarky-sounding theory. I don’t mean it in a snarky way, though. I just know that while I’m a freak who reads entirely too many books there are other people out there who don’t read that many books at all. I know a lot of folks who do other things with [...]

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I Am A Legendary Figure Of Tragedy

I was walking through the Tate Gallery on a rainy January afternoon, looking at art. I rounded a corner and was at once gutshot with a feeling not unlike falling in lust. There on the wall, larger than life was the most entrancing painting I have ever seen. Granted, I was just 18 years old [...]

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The Books You Must Read If You Are A Christian

Sorry for this sloppy entry. I’ve got something to say but don’t feel like writing. That means I don’t feel like whatever this process is where I edit and craft myself into something better than verbal regurgitation. So when this entry doesn’t make a lick of sense or doesn’t say what it should as well [...]

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It’s Saturday

It’s Saturday and my husband is in the yard cutting up the dead branch from our willow tree. It’ll be firewood this winter but now is too hot to contemplate fire. I’m in at my desk, slave to the keyboard as usual but avoiding the should do of my book and my family history by [...]

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We’ve Reached The End Of This Road

Well, I’ve said all I cared to say about the Health Care debacle. I had planned to write up a post about how we solve the problem, what I think the best steps are to take toward a more workable system. In fact, I had drafted a large part of it and was planning to [...]

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