Reflections
Imagine that today is Valentine’s Day and your Grooveshark playlist is on shuffle. You’re wearing red ruffles and listening to ‘Flaming Red Hair’ (the song known to your little brother as ‘hobbits dancing’), as you start to fling words through your swiftly typing fingers. You knock out two sentences before pausing to listen to ‘Tadarida’ [...]
I have a shelf of adverbs inside my head. It’s right above 5 baskets of adjectives, and directly to the right of the bureau over-stuffed with nouns. (The pronouns are in the drawers.) I keep verbs hanging from silver strings all over the ceiling, and sometimes breezes vault through the open window and blow some [...]
Winnie the Pooh’s world is a work of art where we can grasp the string of a balloon and be carried away to the sky and carpe diem. Sometimes fluff is wiser than wise. (If I was Winnie the Pooh, would you be my Piglet and hold my hand? Would you spell all my difficult [...]
I became a stranger for 10 minutes. The sentimental boarder in an active household. No one took much notice of me in the kitchen as I microwaved some leftovers and ate without sitting down. From the aesthetically distasteful display of jello-like cubes on the counter, I gathered that one of the children must have been [...]
Hurtling Toward Oblivion by Richard A. Swenson, MD What: The subtitle of this 130-page book is ‘A Logical Argument for the End of the Age’. And the difference between this and many other end times books, is that this one is, in fact, logical. By using abstract arguments that most anyone can follow, Dr. Swenson [...]
