I‘VE JUST FINISHED On Writing. It’s been years since I’ve read one of your books, and I enjoyed this one enough that I’ll be reading another soon. We have some things in common. Like you, I started a satirical magazine… Read More ›
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The ghost writer of Christmases past
DECEMBER 1st has arrived, and here at the ranch that means it’s time to light the advent candle!
Are you amazing and full of life? Well here is how you know.
A WISE MAN once said that a cluttered desk is the sign of a brilliant, active mind. And the reason the wise man said this is that people kept coming into his office and saying Oh my god—LOOK AT YOUR… Read More ›
I Paid $7 for a Powerful Secret and This is What Happened
TODAY ON MY WALK I saw not one, but four dogs wearing boots. That’s when I started doing something I do a lot, which I call logicalling. Obviously the dogs did not ask for boots, or pick them out, or… Read More ›
My Bad Advice, For Free, Just For You
SO THE OTHER DAY, just for fun, I Googled “google autofill is not working.” Then I got thinking, what would you do if Google autofill was not working and you wanted to find out why, but you couldn’t remember the… Read More ›
Inside the Glamorous Life of an Author
TODAY I MET my book about residential schools — called … um … Residential Schools — for the first time. For that reason alone it was a good day, and I wasn’t even sure if I’d be up for it,… Read More ›
Approval is a Funny Thing
MY FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD son probably wouldn’t approve of me mentioning him in print, so it’s a good thing this is about my friend Wally’s fourteen-year-old son. To those of you who think I am making up Wally and his son, I… Read More ›
Today I Answer Questions from My Blog’s Spam Folder
Letters, oh I get letters. But mooostly I get SPAM. Lots of thousands of hundreds of lots of spam. So, you know, when life hands you a blog folder choc-full-o’ lemons, what do you do? You make artisan organic gluten-free… Read More ›
What I Have Learned About WordPress
I‘VE BEEN AT WORDPRESS for fifty-one months now, and I’ve posted 550 entries. Just for the heck of it, I’ve spent several weeks studying the data I’ve collected from the WordPress “dashboard” as well as from other sources. I drilled… Read More ›
How the Blog Digitized Not Just Writing But Readers
WHEN I BEGAN writing, only the Pentagon had Internet. The rest of us used pens and typewriters, as well as paper, which came in both liquid and solid form. You’d write out your essay, story or article, make a few… Read More ›
A Pleasure to Meet You, Ideal Reader
I WAS ASKED the other day who I imagined my ideal reader to be. “Well,” I answered – “I hadn’t really thought about that.” Not exactly a stellar reply, I know. Of course I had a half-formed, all-wispy-like inkling of… Read More ›
