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2023
  • From the Talltree Times – March 22, 2023 – Can a cure for these STDs be too far behind?
  • Robophobe – March 21, 2023 – how far is too far, or not too far but in the wrong direction?
  • Odd Ends – March 20, 2023 – Blurbs from the news
  • Snicker – March 19, 2023 – odds and ends in the news that set me off…
  • AI (Aee Eye) – March 18,. 2023 – Define, please, “intelligence”
  • Morning Update – March 17, 2023 – Old Grump meanderings
  • Relativity: Time – March 16, 2023 – Deep science. Of course I’m qualified; I’m a blogger, no?
  • Volunteer Status – March 15, 2023 – Better than the Peace Corps
  • Surprises – March 14, 2023 – They make waking up every day an adventure
  • Parity – March 13, 2023 – Hoopla, hoopla, hoopla! Let’s all be enthralled by the pomp and circuitry of the Oskkers…
  • A Flashy Vignette – March 13, 2023 – Link to a flashy conversation with a bit if a speculative fiction feel to it
  • Movie and Book Reviews – March 12, 2023 – I read this book and I liked it because…
  • Odds and Ends – March 11, 2023 – Celebrating Toledo? Jamie Farr? Gary Burghoff?
  • Act III – March 10, 2023 – Snowstorm number three somewhat a surprise
  • Under Warranty – March 9, 2023 – When the coffee pot quits working, let’s hope it’s under warranty
  • Presidential Decorum – March 8, 2023 – Playground comparisons
  • Morning Brief – March 7, 2023 – the insidious assault on America made by Ohioans
  • Open Letter To… – March 6, 2023 – Be sure to leave a tip…
  • Sequitur – March 5, 2023 – the briefest bit of nonsense
  • Odds and Ends – March 4, 2023 – take the opportunity to say…
  • Knuckle Down, Buckle Up – March 3, 2023 – Another winter storm soon to visit
  • Penny Candy – March 3, 2023 – Jawbreakers, Fireballs, Double-Bubble?
  • Student Loan Follies – March 2, 2023 – Student Loan forgiveness – part II
  • Political Pondering – March 1, 2023 – What divides liberals and conservatives? Is “politics” inherently good or evil?
  • Student Loans – February 28, 2023 – Hocus Potus wants to legitimize outright theft
  • Dark Flash – February 26, 023 – It’s thin line separating lunacy and sanity. Or is it?
  • Happy happy – February 25, 2023 – Didja hear about the blizzard in the Midwest?
  • Six Pounds of Plastic – February 23, 2023 – credit cards, ID cards, membership cards, plastic, plastic, plastic!
  • Kicked a Stone – February 22, 2023 – Hot button: weird-wild-wacky advertising and subscription services
  • File Under – February 20, 2023 – Nonsense. Or is it?
  • Strategic Move – February 18 – Politics.
  • Superlatives – February 17, 2023 – Best, biggest, boldest, fastest, smartest; worst, smallest, slowest?
  • Balloons – February 16, 2023 – Power outage and balloon news
  • Odds and Ends – February 15, 2023 – Lost my head
  • File Under – February 15, 2023 – A non-sequitur blurb
  • A Bit of Ribald Poemetry – February 14, 2023 – No, no, no, no, no! Not celebrating Valentine’s Day.
  • File Under – February 13, 2023 – Some Loose Change: How to save face
  • Sunshine for Your Tutu – February 12, 2023 – MSM is abandoning bias?
  • Creeping “MSM” Style Journalism – February 11, 2023 – There is no escaping MSM journalism
  • There’s a Story in it – February 10, 2023 – Insight into the workings of a fiction writer’s mind
  • Things That Go “Bump” in the Night – February 9, 2023 – Stupid? Evil? There’s a difference?
  • Penpals – February 8, 2023 – An invitation to tell spwilcen what it is…
  • Routine Maintenance – February 9, 2023 – A peek into the inner workings of wannabe AI
  • Dark Flash – February 8, 2023 – sending you to the protected “Fiction” page to read “Lookers.” And yes, it is dark.
  • Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – February 7 2023 – Not striving for success
  • My Luck is Different – February 6, 2023 – A parody, if you will…
  • Production Woes – February 5, 2023 – But a blogpost is so-o-o-o easy!
  • Morning Update – January 35, 2023 – Dangerously accurate satire
  • Sparkling Conversation – February 3, 2023 – Strong Silent meets Diarrhea Lips
  • Loose Change – February 2, 2023 – Integrity and opportunism
  • Everyone is a Writer – February 1, 2023 – The “art” and effability of writing and talking
  • Talltree Times – January 31, 2023 – A recent Mr. Fixit: steroid use, extreme southern gardening
  • New Digs – January 30, 2023 – “Working remote” takes on new meaning
  • Alien Invasion – January 29, 2023 – Area 51 right here in River City
  • High Rust Belt Winter – January 28, 2023 – Oh, the weather outside is frightful…
  • Beg Pardon – January 27, 2023 – I’m still here…
  • Work Stoppages – January 24, 2023 – [Yawn] Writers’ Woes
  • Chatting as the Snow Fell – January 22, 2023 – Roger and Larry and Dale
  • Puppets – Special January 21, 2023 – Art imitates life or is it the other way around?
  • Frozen Dessert – January 21, 2023 – Yum. Lemon sorbet!
  • Zooks! I’ve Morphed! – January 20, 2023 – Art and Sciences of following a blog. Or not.
  • Beware the Smile – January 19, 2023 – She smiling at me?
  • Pretty Good Day – January 18, 2023 – And Toto didn’t poo in my boots!
  • Oh The Weather Outside… – January 17, 2023 – Snow? You see any snow?
  • Efficiency – January 14, 2023 – Against “multitasking”
  • Spastic Noodles – January 13, 2023 – As an excuse, I offer I was high on Vitamin C
  • Happy, Happy – January 11, 2023 – Just trying to smoke your tutu
  • Conversational Style – January 9, 2023 – Calipers, Blades, and Mallets: as we speak, we are
  • You Think You Got Troubles, Bunkie? – January 7, 2023 – Do, do, and now, why not? Redo!
  • Twelfth Night – January 6, 2023 – Putting away Christmas for the next eleven months, I noticed something peculiar. Incidentally, WP’s fractured statistics indicates I was spot-on with my predictions.
  • Blowing Smoke – January 5, 2023 – Happy happy, doggie and kitty pics, spinning emojis, under 500 words, ostrich reactions to the real world.
  • Morning Brief – January 4, 2023 – A cheeky look at a few of today’s headlines
  • Christmas Gifts Past – January 3, 2023 – a bit of speculative fiction. Or it it?

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2022
  • Natural Order – December 30, 2022 – A closing “Calipers, Blades, and Mallets” with an unusual bit of explanation. Kind of.
  • Winter Wonderland – December 23, 2022 – The winter “blast” arrived just in time to mess-over Holiday travel
  • In the Spirit of the Season – December 18, 2022 – Let’s link to a short Christmasy anecdote
  • Season’s Grumblings – December 17, 2022 – That’s it. I’ve had it. Can’t take no more. I’m ignoring the PC Word Police in dead earnest now.
  • The Season is Upon US – December 10, 2022 – From the archives, a tale of the spirit of Christmas
  • Anecdotal Guidance – December 5, 2022 – Rules to live by?
  • A Halloween Story – Octember 15, 2022 – A Halloween story
  • From the Archives – Octember 14, 2022 – A bus stop event
  • Kicked a Stone – Octember 13, 2022 – Parking lots, pennies, people, and life
  • Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – Octember 12, 2022 – A bit of sage advice
  • Fluid Dynamics – Octember 0xA, 0x7E6 – Clearly, there are things I do not understand
  • Protein Poor – Octember 8, 2022 – It is what it is.
  • Six Words – Octember 7, 2022 – No one said “Six word story,” did they? Huh?
  • Aliens – Octember 6, 2022 – How did they do that?
  • Five Minutes – Octember 5, 2022 – Use your time productively – like me
  • Character – Octember 4, 2022 – Children overcoming a stacked-deck handicap
  • What’ll Ya Have? – Octember 3, 2022 – Coasting up toward announcing a new “Fiction” interface
  • The Problem – Octember 2, 2022 – Children grow to become “adults”
  • Goodbye to an Old Friend – Septembler 31, 2022 – Autumn, suddenly
  • Kicked a Stone – Septembler 30, 2022 – Getting and taking advice
  • Flash Blog – Septembler 29, 2022 – Bedeviled by yard vermin again, I rail also against a society that’s lost its nut
  • Be Prepared – Septembler 28, 2022 – Suddenly, without any warning at all, autumn slapped me alongside the head
  • Methinks the Lady Doth Protest Too Much – Septembler 27, 2022 – It’s my opinion (and I’m sticking to it) that we go about protesting for change altogether incorrectly
  • Survey Says – Septembler, 26, 2022 – one of the finer ways to distort the truth is to take a survey
  • Overheard – Septembler 25, 2022 – But I had the advantage of being there
  • Color Aromas – Septembler 24, 2022 – What does green smell like?
  • Roger and Larry – Septembler 23, 2022 – The boys discuss prospects for rain
  • File Under (Loose Change) – Septembler 22, 2022 – Ego revisited in a pair of Levis
  • Instant Insult – Septembler 21, 2022 – Everyone has a bit of ego. How much is too much?
  • It’s Okay to Lie to Your Children – Septembler 20, 2022 – Another parenting tip approved by both the DNC and the RNC
  • ADHD and OCD – Septembler 19, 2022 – A brief will take longer than the post itself
  • Loose Change – September 18, 2022 – A rose is a rose is a rose
  • Communications Breakdown – Septembler 17, 2022 – No, what you meant to say was…
  • Rest In Peace – September 16, 2022 – Two good WPers down for the count
  • It is What it is – Septembler 15, 2022 – I’m off to work. See you when I get back.
  • Nertz – Septembler 14, 2022 – I am an uncomfortable read, but I am offended by the comparison
  • Got it Figured Out – Septembler 14, 2022 – There will be some changes made
  • Crunchy Oriental Chicken – Septembler 13, 2022 – Hanging with some buds…
  • Bits and Pieces – Septembler 12, 2022 – The usual rambling kvetch
  • Reported Missing – Septembler 11, 2022 – Adjusting my presence
  • Six-words of Story in Two-hundred Words – Septembler 10, 2022 – Lookit me, ma! Lookit what I done!
  • Little People Fascinate Me – Septembler 9, 2022 – Nature v Nurture argument
  • Morning Brief – Septembler 7, 2022 – Good news for a change
  • House Rules – Septembler 7, 2022 – Keeping spwilcen in line
  • A Much-needed Blog Site – Septembler 6, 2022 – Where are they now?
  • Working Both Sides – September 5, 2022 – Self-serving link to a very short noir piece.
  • Keeping Up With the Times – September 4, 2022 – A movie review you don’t want to miss
  • Biik Update – September 3, 2022 – Obligated to report on the book just read
  • Blogging is Tough – September 3, 2022 – A foray into recipe blogging
  • Morning Brief (aired version) – September 2, 2022 – And all the ships at sea…
  • I’m Reading a Biik – September 2, 2022 – I can follow conventions
  • I am Surely Going to Hell – September 1, 2022 – At least as far as AI is concerned
  • Mister Fixit – January 14, 2022 – Tongue-in-cheek advice to the lovelorn (mis-posted 1/24/2022)
  • PSA – January 12, 2022 – Links to two previously withdrawn creative pieces – “Heartbeat” and “Crazy Wolf”
  • Welcome, Little Buddy – January 1, 2022 – Whaddaya think this would be about, eh?

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2021
  • Reallocation – August 15, 2021 – From those who have to those who have not…
  • Odds And Ends – August 14, 2021 – Murder Hornets? What? Again?
  • Surplus – August 13, 2021 – Ongoing relocation pains
  • Estabula – August 8, 2021 – Tomfoolery pure and simple. But wait! Really?
  • Asked Alice – August 7, 2021 – Look closely, it’s social commentary
  • Interview – August 6, 2021 – Hey! You gonna post another Claxbury Corners?
  • Frankly, I Forget – August 5, 2021 – Random bits of philosophy
  • Non Sequitur – August 4, 2021 – The front don’t exactly line-up with the back
  • No Promises – August 1, 2021 – Just dropping by. Not sure how long this will last or if indeed, it will.
  • Planned Outage – May 10, 2021 – Pulling the plug on spwilcenwrites
  • Remember Clutch? – May 10, 2021 – Gracie plays the part of “Cat,” Clutch co-stars, and Espie gets not even a cameo
  • Details – May 9, 2021 – It’s all in the details…
  • Obfuscation – May 8, 2021 – Ooma amd Org have words. Sort of. Kinda.
  • Random Bits – May 8, 2021 – Se porkly ulfin madha quelco e manno se
  • Adversary – May 7, 2021 – Choose your enemy as carefully as you choose your friends
  • Impostare le Cose in Chiaro – 6 maggio 2021 – Correzione di letture moderne su favole classiche
  • Setting the Record Straight – May 6, 2021 – Correcting modern reads on classic fables
  • A Cuppa Joe – May 5, 2021 – Care for a cup if instant decaf?
  • Leth Try Thith Again – May 5, 2021 – A gentle poke at our frailties
  • In-flight Repair – May 4, 2021 – Uh oh in space
  • Short and Sweet – May 3, 2021 – Calipers, and Nickel Philosophy
  • Choices – May 2, 2021 – It’s not always a rock and a hard place
  • Radio Babble – May 1, 2021 – Somewhere in the goofy airwaves
  • Peevish – April 30, 2021 – Some of my un-favorite things
  • Flashback – April 29, 2021 – Speculative fiction. Also Flash. Also Humor?
  • Impressions – April 28, 2021 – Thoughts about first (and other) impressions
  • Withdrawn – April 27, 2021 – Conversations and confrontations
  • Hunting Dinosaurs – April 26, 2021 – Spoof on hunting of all things, dinosaurs
  • Fashionistas – April 24, 2021 – Critical comments on a few insane fashions
  • Humility – April 21, 2021 – List-keeping, and and ego spoof
  • Odds & Ends – April 20, 2021 – well, it is really just odd pieces of “stuff” including advice for an interstellar emergency
  • Kiss-off – April 19, 2021 – Flash telephone conversation
  • POW – April 17, 2021 Flash story of the Korean War
  • Blog-ish – April 16, 2021 – Even I find this boring

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