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Tag: Humor

  • Write, Pray, Love

    With apologies to John Keats (and Elizabeth Gilbert) It appears that writers cannot help thinking about writing. I suppose it’s analogous to sculptors thinking about carving marble, or musicians thinking about making melodies. But with writers, it’s amusing because we are thinking about words with, of course, words. It reminds me of television commercials advertising…

  • Prophet Motives

    It’s not always about the money. Gelt. Boodle. Scratch. Sugar. Loot. Photo by Dmitry Moraine on Unsplash A friend and I were talking recently about the urgent necessity of developing alternative energy sources when the friend said, matter-of-factly, “Of course, people have to be incentivized to do that development…” We’ve all heard this mantra a hundred times.…

  • Words and Time and Souls

    Future conditional. Words are a miracle that we too often take for granted. We toss them around like Nerf balls, forgetting how essential they are for connecting us with the reality of people and things. And language — the way we weave those words together — reflects how we move through time. Language itself is a miracle, permeating our…

  • Hate to judge but love to condemn?

    Here’s what happens when we get it backward. Years ago, I was listening to a radio report of an impending local election on a special referendum. As I understood it, the city was going to vote on the Wet Bra Issue. Well, I was immediately offended, loudly proclaiming to my partner that this nonsense was…

  • How I’m Making My Own Rules

    Nine of them. And you can, too. Chalk lines show where home is. Image by Mark Duffel on Unsplash People often like to say they hate rules: they believe rules are made to be broken; rules are for fools and sheeple and chumps. At their best, those rule-breakers are wildly creative and productive, bringing fresh thinking to…

  • Everything Old is New Again

    Time to tidy the world It always makes me glad to find a really good thrift store. For me, thrift shopping is a treasure hunt, a therapy session, a trivial defiance of consumerism and materialism, and a way to live beyond my actual means. I felt thoroughly vindicated when Macklemore’s song hit and made thrift shopping…

  • Is Reading Ruining Your Writing?

    A 7-step program for recovering word junkies Writers are almost always devoted readers, and we know that exposure to good writing will help us in our own work. I firmly believe that reading widely and wisely is essential to being a good writer, despite everything else I’m about today. Reading is a good thing; it teaches…