Category Archives: Miscellany

Ending the Debate on Debate

Debate and discourse are important in a republic such as ours. I’d never want to squelch it. But on a personal, individual level of argument, I wonder if it ever makes any sense. Some people enjoy arguing a point for the sake of arguing a point. I used to be that way for some things. …

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Second Look at the Second Amendment

Do any of you remember that awful day when a murderer rushed into a crowded place with an ax, and within minutes killed 50 people by hacking them to death? How about the time someone stabbed about 30 people to death on a college campus with a Swiss Army knife? Or the horrific moment when …

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Part Time Job

Over the last few weeks, my blogging schedule hasn’t been quite as regular as it normally is, or as I’d like it to be. That’s because I recently started a part time job as an assistant housekeeper at a local assisted living home. My mother is the head of housekeeping there. She’d been needing some …

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Oil Painting

I’ve always wanted to know what oil painting was like. A few months ago I was determined to try it out on at least a limited basis. The universe encouraged this experiment by making oil painting supplies discounted all at once in a store I visited about a week later. So of course, I bought …

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Support Indie Authors

I’m an indie-author so far. I publish my own work. That brings special difficulties. Any indie author is aware of this, at least in the start, and we need all the support we can get, especially from one another. I’m choosing to do that as a reader by eliminating the separation between indie-published works and …

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