- To Borrow a Phrase: Is it stealing a word?
- Merry Christmas!
- We’re All in the Race: Ann Patchett’s Run
- Our Cat Who Loved a Tree
- About Anne Tyler’s Redhead by the Side of the Road
- From a Good Heart and a Great Pen: Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant
- Raccoon and I: Two Poor Decisions
- Short Response to Lightning Flowers by Katherine E. Standefer
- Patricia Lawson’s Short Fiction
- Elderberry, Beetles, Reading and Writing
- John Mort’s Down Along the Piney: Finding the Dream
- Flourishing
- An Affinity for Kindness
- Revisiting Mary Troy’s Swimming On Hwy N
- On Shakespeare’s Birthday, a Double Superlative
- Churches Omitted in Last Post
- A Friend’s House
- Mixed Blog: End of One Pandemic Year at Home
- A Model for Bold Writing: Adam Johnson
- Song About Missouri
- Writing in the Ocean: Write, Read, Write
- Spring Flight Poets
- Kingsolver’s Ruse
- Thoughts on Reading: Ted Chiang
- Thoughts on Voice and Style
- Dastard: a Word to the Wise
- Friendship with Trees
- Black Lives Matter Near My Hometown
- Judging Fiction Contests
- Bird Bouquet
- Tiny and Powerful: Stephen King’s Elevation
- Grasshopper Doings on Grover Street
- Thoughts on Reading
- Stone, Cold, Sober, Thought
- That Turtle Dove
- A Kind View in Ryan’sThe Chilbury Ladies’ Choir
- Possible Spoiler: A Ghost Story
- Warning: A Sappy Dog Story
- Praise for The Shape of Water
- Impromptu Piano Christmas Duet
- Last Week of Summer at UCM
- Our Community Rose Garden
- For the Love of Books, Today Paulette Jiles’ News of the World
- Why Quote the Bully?
- Heads Up! Anyone Find the Wrong Treat in Beggin’ Strips?
- Fiddling “Put Your Little Foot”
- Humming Giraffes, Purring Cats, Loving Animals
- Is a Failed GOP Health Care Bill Trump’s Plan?
- Does Belle Eat at the Banquet?
- Good Wishes for Melania
- If a Staged Error, a Misguided Good Intent
- Staged Error in Favor of Love and Peace
- Victoria and Albert Spoiler (with brownies)
- Closed Caption Censorship
- About Gary Cadwallader, Artist
- Another Post on Dreams: Dreaming as a Power Play
- Little Gift Shop on the Square
- I’m Voting for Hillary, but Speaking Now for Trump
- A Little Lost in St. Louis
- Forgiveness, Not Trust
- Fiddles, Cats, and Rosins
- Flying in Dreams and Elsewhere
- Yea for Karen Dolley and Creative Anachronism
- Does “Taken” Mean “Killed” in Big Game Hunter Language?
- Firing Roger Stone the Best Campaign Strategy Yet
- Church Dolls, Pew Babies, Handkerchief Dolls
- Grey or Gray? I’ll Take the Peasant Class (a repost)
- In Praise of Keith Donohue, writer (a repost)
- Good Jack Hanna (a repost)
- Music Behind Bud Ad: Passenger (a repost)
- Justice or Hidden Agenda: Paula Deen (a repost)
- Sacrificing Carie Charlesworth
- Stalking Points Investigation: Creating an Enemy
- Memorable Scene in Herzog’s Heart of Glass
- Living in Harmony with the Squirrels in the Chimney
- Asperatus Clouds Photo by Witta Priest
- Not a Book for Everyone: Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son
- A Bit More on Baglio’s The Rite (and the Devil)
- The New Delhi Horror
- Charlie Beljan’s Panic Attack
- Why the Furor about Petraeus Affair?
- In Search of a Philosophy: Fearing God
- Trampoosing Blues in a Word
- The Writer’s Language
- The Web Ghosts
- A T. C. Boyle Line or Two
- The Lambasted Lover: Bergman and Haneke
- If Only Akin Could Experience What He Requires
- Shuttle Tatting: Now Which String Do You Pull???
- Geniuses Among Us
- Animal Emotions
- The Delicate Touch of Taj Mahal
- Citizens and Law Enforcement: Mutual Respect
- Some Humor at a Jam Session
- Yea! Brown Mountain Lights Under Study
- Steven Tyler’s National Anthem Was Fine
- Groundhogs Can Climb
- Photo of a Ghost?
- Grateful for Steve Job’s "Oh Wow!"
- Birds Dying Again; Again a New Year
- A Fiction Writer in the Natural World
- Cats and Frogs (and other prey); To the Rescue
- Loving Attention: Lolly and Lucky
- A Protest Stroll! God Bless Them
- The Hummingbird Spy Plane
- The Question Posed by the New Cosmic Census: Why haven’t aliens visited us?
- Loughner, a Victim
- Pride and Dialect
- Fall Starts When I Buy School Supplies
- Railroad Spike, Southeast Missouri Sentiment and Practicality
- Neanderthals, Here, There, and Yonder
- Believing in angels or just other species
- Census, a Personal Touch
- Why was Tillikum the Whale Still "Working" Near Humans?
- The Compensation of Writing Fiction
- Bullies (by Kristine Lowe-Martin)
- Witches, Warts, and Toads
- Witch DNA
- Prayer Power
- Bad Luck Spider
- Two Movies on an Icy Day: Avatar and Sherlock Holmes
- From the Bootheel With Pride
- The Changing Vernacular: Working on Food
- Obama
- Angels in Secret
- Fond of Giants (1)
- Tolkien Dream Bit
- Working in Dreams
- The Night Shift: Flexible Hours Sleep Cycle (No. 4)
- The Night Shift: Flexible Hours Sleep Cycle (No.3)
- The Night Shift: Flexible Hours Sleep Cycle (No. 2)
- The Night Shift: Flexible Hours Sleep Cycle (No.1)
- Ghosts of Plagiarism Past
- Missing Witchcraft Books
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