After a frustrating day of watching Republican ‘termites’ boring incessantly into the heart-wood of America, I amuse myself by chasing our country’s national symbol and asking if I can take their photograph.
It wasn’t too long ago that these amazing...
BudgetPOV is a proposed series on making ends meet in these troubled times (especially since the “ends” seem to be hacked off and cauterized).
This, the first article in the series, looks at ways to save on food costs. My...
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BudgetPOV is a series of articles intended to help people living with economic uncertainty to live frugally. This first article in the series is concerned with the most important facet of living frugally: a person’s attitudes about having to live this way.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. But that's okay, it can't be offended by you, because it's dead.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
What is so challenging about writing fiction? How could that be hard?
That was the question an acquaintance asked me recently. I was mildly annoyed at the question, but I realized that to many people, fiction is simply entertainment. And...
However, I've noticed that you are currently finding it difficult to decide upon your next course of action. This is why I am writing to you: To sound you out on my proposal about how to resolve this situation.
When I went to find my sister's grave, I didn't expect tot get a lesson in my family's dysfunction.
On a Cloudy Day
By James Michael Brodie
One night, years ago, I was driving down a quiet road at night with a couple of friends. Seeing a silver barrel hurling headlong toward our windshield, the driver, as...
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