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December 2013

December 05, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad, Bad Beer

The travelers were served by the innkeeper, whose manner suggested that he hoped they died...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

The Deadly Ambiguity of Aphorisms

In all my years of Christian living I've often heard the saying, "God will never...

November 21, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Barton Cottage

As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage...

November 14, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Talents

Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents. — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather, speaking...

November 07, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad Language

“Dang Brodell,” Emmett said. Actually that isn’t what he said. But about a year ago...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: The Bells

A little something for Halloween. I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells!...

October 24, 2013

Word I Wish I’d Written: Pragmatism

The Patrician was a pragmatist. He never tried to fix things that worked. Things that...

October 20, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Hunger

I do not often resemble the following scriptures: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst...

October 11, 2013

Trollope’s Theory of Fiction

Your average genre novel is like a high speed car chase ending in a massive...

October 08, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Time and Conscience

The whole of Lucy’s behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore,...

October 03, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Mr. Teatime

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror,...