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My teenage son, Isaac, came up to me a couple of days ago with a funny look on his face; after pausing for a few moments, he finally asked, ...

A few days after I wrote my post on children's books, my eight-year-old daughter cleaned out her desk at school and brought home a colle...

“Read a lot” or “read widely,” writers are often advised. But most of my reading these days takes place in the car, with books on tape, and ...

A short article in this month's Smithsonian magazine has inspired me to look at blogging (and also, perhaps, journal keeping) in a new...

I got this strange email today: This is Shiela from hp-ink-cartridges.org. We stumbled on your blog while searching for Hp Ink Cartridges...

This is my first post that is here mostly to offer links to sources on a particular topic. (See previous post for more info). Although I co...

I've been collecting links and articles over the last several months on topics that interest me, particularly those that I keep meaning ...

I used to watch soap operas, mostly because they would be on when I visited my spinster aunts, Maxie and Lola Belle. I loved the juxtapositi...

A few weeks into my first English literature class in college, I raised my hand one day and naively asked the professor if D.H. Lawrence had...

I usually write more when I am alone. That's when I need it more. I crave some kind of a dialogue, no matter what circumstance I am in. ...