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  • Sarah Palin’s Book Tour Begins! on Nov 18, 2009

    I was at the gym, where I get in most of my TV watching. Screens, on either side of me, hung from the ceiling. One showed a fantasy workout in Hawaii, with unnatural women lifting weights. On the other side, was SportsCenter. The one directly in f...

  • Dog Flu on Sep 29, 2009

    Today, I read a headline (that’s where I get all my news) that warned against Dog Flu! It’s one thing to get the flu from a pig or even a bird, but now I have to worry about Man’s Best Friend? Why, Buster? Why? We walk. There are regul...

  • Into The Future! on Sep 15, 2009

    Meet George Jetson. Jane, his wife. Everyone is smiling. We’re levitating. Or, our food is. Robots are everywhere and they’re smiling. I can’t wait to get there. Back in the Twentieth Century, we adolescent boomers had not only the w...

  • Writing the Twitter Novel on Aug 24, 2009

    Concerning Twitter, brevity is the soul of everything. Each Tweet (cyber message) is limited to 140 characters. Each character is a letter, a mark of punctuation, or a space. That’s not a lot of leeway to introduce a protagonist. Or, to create an a...

  • Deeper Than My Navel on Jul 14, 2009

    Have you ever had one of those moments where the curtains draw back, the light is blinding, and you are filled with a revelation that you’ve had before, but it’s amazing all the same? I’m not talking about waking up this morning. I mean a m...

  • Happy Birthday! on Jul 6, 2009

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  • Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. on Jun 24, 2009

    I’m outside, watering the newly planted lilac, when I hear a slight buzzing sound that immediately turns into a giant, threatening, buzzing sound. I look up and, before me, is a dark cloud of bees, like some kind of dark static in my vision. Ther...