Thursday, January 09, 2025

Marvels of Evolution

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I'm reading a recently published work by famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, THE GENETIC BOOK OF THE DEAD. The title refers to...
Saturday, January 04, 2025

Old Wives' Tales

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This is said to be a sad time of year, as in S.A.D. or Seasonally Affective Disorder. Laughter is the best medicine, some say. My inner skep...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Taking the Bucket Out of the Bucket List, Part 1 by Karen S. Wiesner

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Taking the Bucket Out of the Bucket List, Part 1 by Karen S. Wiesner     In this updated, two part reprisal of earlier posts on the Alie...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Character Building

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What builds character? In the fictional sense, I used to assign a star sign and read my fictional character's horoscope and all their as...
Friday, December 27, 2024

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke by Karen S. Wiesner     Susanna Clarke is the...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Anti-Santas

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Nowadays almost everybody has heard of Krampus, the goatlike humanoid creature from central Europe who accompanies Saint Nicholas to punish ...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Pour BOIR

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 Pourboire is French for a tip. Loosely, it means, "To buy yourself a drink." "Pour" means "for" and " b...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett by Karen S. Wies...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Octopus Superpowers

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I came across another article about the delightful weirdness and surprising intelligence of octopuses: 10 Incredible Facts About Octopuses...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Phthongs In A Twist

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One of the most intelligent sfr authors of our day, Linnea Sinclair, once opined that even my laundry list would be entertaining. That compl...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner     From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:  They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagr...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Old-Fashioned Holidays

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Having recently discovered we own a copy of Washington Irving's SKETCH BOOK, published around 1820 (one of the books we inherited from m...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

Less Envy

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I feel a rant coming on.   In the world rankings for the best education systems , Great Britain comes third. America comes twelfth, so, as a...