That is the question. Well, that is a question. Not one I’m asking of myself right now—thank you, faithful readers, for your encouragement!—but one a favorite blogger of mine is asking. In short, he’s debating the value of craft vs. immediacy; that is, whether he should be focusing more of his time on the books…
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locupletative
As I drove home from work this afternoon, I heard this brief story on NPR’s All Things Considered. The gist? There are so many words that have been neglected for so long, they’ve been all but banished from the dictionary. They need someone to reintroduce them into our everyday lexicon. In short: these words need…
Mystery
Over the last couple of years, I’ve become a fan of PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery, particularly the Inspector Lewis series. It’s a spin-off of the Inspector Morse series, apparently, which I’m not as familiar with—although I did recently add several of those episodes to my Netflix queue. I enjoy Masterpiece in general, whether it’s Mystery, Classic…
Teen idols
Since yesterday’s post, I’ve been thinking about the whole teen idol phenomenon. When I was a kid, I was plastering my bedroom walls with posters of Donny Osmond and clipping articles out of Teen Beat and Tiger Beat magazines. And I was listening to his records—45s and LPs alike—and fantasizing that he was singing in…
Da Doo Ron Ron
I’ve never been a huge Oprah fan. I know she does a lot of good in the world, but I find myself uncomfortable with the adoration her die-hard fans seem to have for her, which seems a little too much like worship. But it’s the 25th season of her TV show, and while I’ve never…
Friday night bliss
They (whoever “they” are) say the older you get, the more comfortable you are with yourself. This rings true in my life. Sure, there are things I’d like to change—most notably, my weight. Thirty years ago, my dream was to have a clear complexion, and that dream has more or less come true, thank goodness….
The most disagreeable month?
“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,” said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. “That’s the reason I was born in it,” observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. “If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it…
Homework
I have homework to do. I graduated from college more than 22 years ago now, and except for that brief period during my senior year when I was trying to figure out what came next, I’ve never really considered going back to school. It’s not that I don’t love learning new things. What I don’t…
An early November commitment
Unlike many of my friends, I don’t really have a desire to write a novel, but the whole National Novel Writing Month phenomenon has always fascinated me. And while I know it’s not an original idea. I’m contemplating applying the concept to blogging. I write for a living. I’m writing all the time. And while…
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