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bob-mustin's picture
Jan.20.2013
You might think this article would be for literary Luddites, who prefer Gutenberg to Steve Jobs. Not so, according to its author: "E-books are not simply a better format replacing an inferior one; they offer a wholly different experience." Thus, there's room for both in the modern experience....
sherrie-theriault's picture
Nov.09.2012
  November 9   CLINGING       Large bugs cling to the soffits, upside down, as an alternative to the rain soaked landscape.  I salute their efforts to find security in a shrinking list of possible locations.  Awkward situations place me, fingertips and toenails...
michael-seidel's picture
Feb.11.2012
You make choices every day. You think, this is who I am, this is who I was, and this is who I want to be. Sometimes, y0u deliberately think this in a conscious way. Other times the thoughts and actions are forced through the process without conscous touching. This is who I am. You look into the...
allan-james-cox's picture
Aug.16.2010
Time to Get Rid of the Options 1.   Wolf wanted the sweeter grapes high on the vine. To have them, he'd have to unclench the grapes in his teeth and leap. He wouldn't do it. 2.   A lady spilled coins spilled across the floor. She started to pick up one, then went to another and another without ...
sherrie-theriault's picture
Oct.24.2009
October 24   BIRTH OF AN APPLE    When an apple gives birth what is the result?   Seed or sauce?  Crunch or crisp?  The act of creation is so much an act of sacrifice, how can it be limited to only one kind of delivery?  The children of effort produce fruit of their own; who am I to call them other...
scott-c-holstad's picture
Nov.17.2008
My wife and I have been receiving harassing and threatening email messages over the past week! This is not a literary post, sorry.  Instead, my mind has been elsewhere and I've been preoccupied with bizarre happenings.  It's a very long, complicated story, and due to certain variables, I do not...