Archives

• 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