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November 5, 2024 It's Bonfire Night back in the UK, where I grew up. I've been gone so long I don't know if and how it's still...

October 29, 2024 It's exactly a week before the election. Is there pondering room in my mind for much else? So here's the script for a...

October 27, 2024 Till recently, I'd rarely seen a fox around our neighborhood. Though there are coyotes about, and maybe a fox could be...

October 23, 2024 So, Life, I was back seeing the eye doctor today, mostly a glaucoma check, but also about how well my cataract care’s...

October 18-19, 2024 Readers, there are questions I fear to ask, and would likely not ask here, were anyone reading this. I am of my...

I so love the limerick form that I sometimes attempt to write serious work using it. Here's one that looks as if it dates from 2013. The...

October 16, 2024 Over on PALIMPSEST (go to the PNEWS tab and drop down), where I posted my first three blog entries before realizing I...

October 15, 2024 I miss tennis. I haven't played in five or six years now; it got to where every other time I did, I strained a leg...

I'm quite the lover of limericks. I churn them out for practice, and I read them for pleasure. Good ones do need to scan, which seems to...

October 13, 2024 Last week, out of nowhere, or more precisely Mali, I received a greeting card postmarked “Tombouctou.” The message, in a...

October 12, 2024 So. A blog? As with everything else on this site, the first question is: am I doing this right? I'll add a photograph...