Texas Republicans Oppose Knowledge-Based Education (Seriously)
And, I’m guessing, math-based algebra…horse-based horse racing…dirt-based diggingThe 2012 Republican Party of Texas platform, among a string of other head-scratching proposals, demands, and...
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"The window, on the backside of the house, the one no one sits by for the draft it lets through, occasionally lets in an impossible light—this blank chiaroscuro riding the coattails of sunset. Don’t...
View ArticleThe End of the Age
When the world again doesn’t endLet it be at last a letting beLet our sages speak of love And the End of the Age Let the frigid earth be frigidLet the winds howl among us Let us like trees in the...
View ArticleKill Your Own Darlings, Jerk
Murder your darlings. – Sir Arthur Quiller-CrouchIt’s too bad such a great phrase has become such a writing cliché. The latest time I heard it, the quote was attributed to Stephen King because the...
View ArticleProfessionals on the Cheap
A few years ago, sitting across from a former boss at a Chicago restaurant, I was informed by the Man he was thinking about hiring a large number of Filipinos to write for him. He could get five of...
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Putting on the Writer’s Hat
As my wife starts her own blog on the transition of being 40, I am reminded that I am in my own transition. Jenny’s transition involves returning to the world of adults after five years of raising our...
View ArticleKill Your Own Darlings, Jerk
Murder your darlings. – Sir Arthur Quiller-CrouchIt’s too bad such a great phrase has become such a writing cliché. The last time I heard it, the quote was attributed to Stephen King. Before that I...
View ArticleProfessionals on the Cheap
A few years ago, sitting across from a former boss at a Chicago restaurant, I was informed by the Man he was thinking about hiring a large number of Filipinos to write for him. He could get five of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Putting on the Writer’s Hat
As my wife starts her own blog on the transition of being 40, I am reminded that I am in my own transition. Jenny’s transition involves returning to the world of adults after five years of raising our...
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