Category Archives: Writing

Pro Tip

After refilling your pen with an ink named “Antique Copper,” do not, forgetful, go back to work and, later, scratch your nose.

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Health Careless

If anyone can a  future more dystopian than one in which the number of our days is decided by an ever more atheist state or its bean counting minions, leave a note in the comments.

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Nobel Dylan

Ann Althouse will be very happy. Mike Royko would have been less so. I suppose worse writers have been enNobeled.

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Claquers and Mischief

I’ve never bothered much about the reviews on Amazon, especially for books. I occasionally scan for the negatives about other stuff, but even those I discount. “This product doesn’t do this thing I want it to!” is commonly complained, leaving one … Continue reading

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USA, 2016

Lightning and thunder roused me very early; I took advantage of the solitary time to consider a character, an entirely fictional character, who wandered in, made a cup of tea, and sat down to tell me her unlikely story.  Not … Continue reading

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A Diversion

If your stomach is sour with the antics of the two hairballs American democracy has coughed up, if you’re weary of the incursion of celebrity culture into every corner of life and the procession of horrors that constitutes the news, … Continue reading

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