I can recall my elementary school days with nearly day-to-day precision. One day Mrs. Merrill introduced a new word with the first really fun, evocative definition...
Hose, this is your conscience. You’re getting too far out there. Try to share. Try building a rapport with your reader. After all, when it comes...
“The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive,” Ray Bradbury said in 1967. Well, I’ve survived longer than I expected or deserve, and some of...
Recently I was requisitioned to serve as host/announcer at two separate quasi-beauty pageants. The contestants were happily of the female gender. (Thank you, God.) My anticipation...
There’s a pretty good chance that by the time you read this, I will have left our country. If you get this near the first of...
Say what you want about the Monkees; they sold 37 million albums in l967 and none of those millions was too terribly bad. Their third LP,...
“Georges had a unique talent that every director’s looking for: the ability to enhance the director’s work. If you had a comedy scene and it wasn’t...
What distinguishes the non-random thought from the random one? Only its hubris, I’d be inclined to say. Each can be powerful. Each can be sexy. But...
Rare, unexplainable phenomena always seem to catch me with my pants down. I’m not referring to stuff like that sudden, unforseen flood that nearly drowned me...
