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2024

• Like Us On FaceSplash – May 15, 2024 – Commerce has hijacked the www for its nefarious purposes
• Newsfeed Wanderings – May 14, 2024 – A few busy days away and reviewing the needs feeds yields some interesting old guy observations
• Little Things – May 10, 2024 – It’s the little things that get to you
• Temptation – May 9, 2024 – The shamus found the stash; thinks to help himself; doesn’t; why not?
• I Lied – May 8, 2024 – Underestimated the amount of work involved for a simple task I figured to get out of the way while “taking it easy’ for a day
• Slacking-off – May 7, 2024 – In preparation for the new garden opening on Mother’s Day
• Inconsiderate – May 5, 2024 – Arrive early to the commencement, find a row of seats empty save one person. But Sorry! You can’t sit there because he’s saving those seats for someone else, someone obviously not here yet. %$#%^$#%^#^%$!!!
• Forced Respite – May 3, 2024 – An unscheduled break might just be what the doctor ordered
• Is There a “Right” Way? – May 1, 2024 – How better for “lost” college students to express their current shepherd’s philosophy?

• What’s What – April 30, 2024 – Explaining my absence
• Scattered Smatterings – April 27, 2024 – Why I’ve been briefly absent
• Fluff – April 24, 2024 – Dining in a new town with a valued VIP
• Mind Games – April 23, 2024 – Crossword mental gymnastics
• April’s Fool Revisited – April 22, 2024 – Fluff, at best a weather obs
• Reader Shenanigans – April 21, 2024 – WP Reader folly and mini-ranting AI
• Flash Blog – April 20, 2024 – Weekend posts: bane or bonus?
• Serves Us Right – April 19, 2024 – Education and AI both instruments of doom
• Applied Science – April 18, 2024 – A teensy mathematics puzzler
• Someone Surely Can Explain – April 17, 2024 – Of the mysteries of the universe, one is most troubling
• Poemetric Diversion – April 16, 2024 – The latest little limerick
• Quickie Quiz – April 15 , 2024 – Pop History – and Happy Tax Day
• Today’s Horoscope – April 14, 2024 – TallTree Times and Trader looks to expand its list of features
• Cryptaesthesia – April 13, 2024 – Otherwise known as ESP – fact or fiction?
• Love A Rainy Day – April 12, 2024 – Schedule interuptus
• Why So Difficult – April 11, 2024 – Of computing (debugging) and politics
• Apples and Oranges – April 10, 2024 – The joys of product selection and the evils of marketing strategies
• Celestial Follies – April 9, 2024 – Solar eclipse. No higher incidence of lunacy, just cooler blame to sluff-off
• Recent Fiction – April 8, 2024 – Flash Noir – the almost perfect crime
• American Standard Nitescapades – April 7, 2024- Old dudes know how eight-hours’ sleep is routinely interrupted by trips to the toilet
• Side Effects – April 6, 2024 – “Take all medications in the prescribed manner…”
• Student Loans – April 5, 2024 – Sleepy Creepy is about to try again to bolster poll ratings and snarf up some “for sale” votes by dipping into the Federal Funny Money Bin
• Cardio – April 5, 2024 – Good for a body…
• Satisfaction Surveys – April 5, 2024- “Please, just a moment of your time to tell us how we’re doing…”
• Horror Games – April 4, 2024 – Bad guys doing innocents harm, look out, Karma is afoot
• Roger and Larry – April 4, 2024 – Once again we listen-in on a conversation between two old buddies
• Banned Word Update – April 3, 2024 – inclusivity, gender, ethnicity, social status, religion – so many considerations when making word choices; mystic place of eternal rewards or punishment, one would not want to offend!
• That’s Insulting – April 3, 2024 – A previously unpublished “Favorite Insult”
• Mind Mulch – April 2, 2024 – Is this a limerick?
• Surprise Cameo – April 2, 2024 – Conversational humor in a follow-up telecon between a medical transcriptionist and a patient
• Justice – April 1, 2024 – Posing a serious question
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday: brought to mind not The Prince of Peace, but the horror of mankind
• In the News – March 31, 2024 – The latest unpopularity poll
• No Worry – March 30, 2024 – Shortcut to the new society we all crave
• The Swineherd’s Guests Part 4 of 4 – March 30, 2024 – Conclusion of the 4-parter
• Impasse – March 29, 2024 – No more Mister Nice Guy. Oh, okay, Mister Nice Guy. No. Wait…
• The Swineherd’s Guests Part 3 of 4 – March 29, 2024 – Episode 3
• Computer Maintenance – March 28, 2024 – Maintenance tips for everyman not a guild computist
• The Swineherd’s Guests Part 2 of 4 – March 28, 2024 – Episode 2 of the fable
• If You Are a Painter… – March 27, 2024 – Nickel Notions – how pretentious!
• The Swineherd’s Guests Part 1 of 4 – March 27, 2024 – Fable for today
• Fun Quiz – March 26, 2024 – Of the easiest form – just scratch your head and answer a question
• Recognized Authorities – March 26, 2024 – Everyone’s favorite subject – politics
• Interview – March 26, 2024 – The curmudgeon is interviewed as a milestone of sorts is reached
• What is America Coming To? – March 25, 2024 – An odd day violates American social norms, scaring the bejumbo out of our narrator
• Time Travel – March 24, 2024 – Nobel Prize candidate material
• From Wyoming’s Talltree Times– March 23, 2024 – Mister Fixit of the Talltree Times goes international
• Quiet Competition – March 22, 2024 – At home in upper-middle suburbia run by fiercely competitive women
• Pennywise Philosophy – March 21, 2024 – Bashful Opportunity
• Tristiviacocolide85 – March 21, 2024 – the fight to cure, or at least abate SED-L and SED-C
• Nickle Notion – March 20, 2024 – [Sigh.} Politics, political peversion, and what is one to do?
• Toddler Tantrums – March 20, 2024 – How we advance ourt causes in today’s political atmosphere
• Safe Distance – March 20, 2024 – The ultimate in off-gridding
• Firm Fact – March 19, 2024 – Of Johnsons and Johnsons
• Watch This Space – March 18, 2024 – What WP needs is another book review blog
• Happy 100, Dad – March 17, 2024 – officially one century of wisdom and live
• Cooking with Kowalski – March 17, 2024 – Kowalski hails from Rhode Island
• Up For A Little Flash Noir? – March 17, 2024 – Flash cops and robbers 3 “acts,” 500 w2ords on the buzzer
• It’s That Time of Year Again – March 16, 2024 – Kowalski flaps his gums at his annual Wellness Check. We unfortunately overhear…
• Which Washington?– March 15, 2024 – D of C, or the state? Explaining why neither are particularly attractive, and past visits do not make return trips there likely.
• Scrambled Metaphor – March 2024 – Life is more than a bowl of cherries; something like, well, um, like driving a car, yeah, that’s it, like driving a car
• Infinite Monkeys – March 14, 2024 – tongue-in-cheeking the state of American tastes in literature and the “writers” pandering to intellectual malaise, an infinite number of monkeys toiling away at writing the next <em><strong>Star Wars</em></strong>, and the latest social cancer, Artificial Intelligence.
• In the News – March 13, 2024 – Satire from the Talltree Times and Trader – An independent candidate for CIC exposes parts of his executive plans once he is sworn-in
• Navel Recon – March 13, 2024 – Espie contemplates his navel while Stanislaus Kowalski blathers
• Demosthenes and Diogenes – March 13, 2024 – “Set” slates for the National Lotto
• Popeye Sez – March 12, 2024 – Loose marbles or nonsense?
• Of Rabbits and Republicans – March 12, 2024 – one group despicable, the other trying desperately to be so – care to take a guess?
• Eco-friendly – March 11, 2024 – Politics? Really?
• Coffee and Chili – March 11, 2024 – let’s argue the eminently arguable: chili and coffee
• Discovery – March 10, 2024 – British (yea!) entertainment media against American (Boo! Hiss!) entertainment media
• Bummed – March 9, 2024 – latest “last passes” lamented
• Entertainment – March 9, 2024 – Stupid Bowl, Oscars, and politics – high culture and prime entertainment
• One Dozen Eggs – March 8, 2024 – American retailers and software purveyors triumphant in delivering the best there can be for American consumers; not at all similar you say? Beg to differ
• Act Responsibly – March 8, 2024 – Only you can prevent fire forests
• Home Again – March 7, 2024 – Headed only 20 miles up the road, home, home I haven’t seen in thirty years…
• Mad Ave Mysteries – March 6, 2024 – A tagline from an old advert prompted a bit of fluff
• Commercial Site Updates – March 5, 2024 – “We’ve updated our privacy policy…”
• Flash Fiction – March 3, 2024 – Either I write fiction or I write blog entries. Can’t do both. Some kind of way folk feel cheated when, pressed for time, I blog a link to recent fiction. Ah, well, it’s an imperfect world.
• Taking it to Heart – March 2, 2024 – Direct from the Alps of East Tennessee, a life lesson for us all to work on
• Kicked a Stone – March1, 2024 – As I keyed this, it came out “Kicked a Stoner.” Actually, that’s better than the real post. Stoners, fifty percent of the time, are phenomenal life coaches. Regular people don’t do nearly as well. Oh. Yeah. Subject matter of the KAS episode: being intolerant, or giving people exactly what they deserve.

• Leap Year Day – February 29, 2024 – Based on positions of the sun, moon, and stars, let’s make up another scientific fact, you know, like good Democrats
• Babies and Bathwater – February 28, 2024 – Guest blogger Stanley Kowalski on elections, taxes, and politics. Ugh! How depressing!
• Archie and Walter – February 27, 2024 – Been a long time since we’ve heard from these two old gaffers
• Pickups and City Cowboys – February 26, 2024 – Extended cab, duallied pickups and the typical city twits that drive them
• Weekend Posts – February 25, 2024 – Not a rant, an observation clouded by fiddling with the editor – everyone should have a hobby, right?
• Punctuality – February 24, 2024 – Einstein could have done more with his posits on time
• CBM – February 23, 2024 – It’s the truth! I swear.
• Loose Change – February 22, 2024 – Playing poker? Living life?
• Moire – February 21, 2024 – What evil forces corrupt out memories?
• Loose Change – February 20, 2024 – Baby got a new pair of shoes….
• Some Kind of Sissy – February 19, 2024 – Patriotism and other passe ideas
• Absurdly Woke – February 16, 2024 – a committee seeks some concessions from the NBA
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – February 15, 2024 – Ah, love!
• New and Improved – February 14, 2024 – Kicked a Stone – “New” does not mean “Better”
• Not Poemetry – February 13, 2024 – Troll bait; once again bemoaning the current state of peometric art
• Loose Change – February 12, 2024 – Rules for turning-in a proper day’s work
• Nickle Notion – February 11, 2024 – Continuity of Truths and Lies
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – February 10, 2024 – When silence is golden
• BBTS Standing – February 9, 2024 – brief comments on state of the art shopping for DIY supply
• Geeze – February 6, 2024 – I wanna climb soapboxes, but because I usually speak from a point of [un]common sense and love to offer hard facts, and [mostly because] I offend popular minority groups, I’m not welcome to the public stage.
• Episodic Flash Fiction – February 1, 2024 – Introducing speculative fiction, “Self-correcting Memory”
• Medical News – January 28, 2024 – Treatment breakthrough for Dementia?
• Winter Trappings – January 21, 2024 – Why, in the olden days…
• Why? – January 19, 2024 – Pondering inconsistencies
• AI – January 18, 2024 – WordPress Follies
• Oldie Moldy Flash – January 18, 2024 – a bit of fiction exposed though you don’t deserve it, but I’ll let it pass as it’s not one of the best, about a superhero’s faulty super power
• Around Town – January 17, 2024 – two cranky old-guy observations on human conduct
• Spurned – January 16, 2024 – Love, sex, and appointments with tradesmen
• Tolerance – January 11, 2024 – Vanilla ice cream, anyone?
• Low Level Code – January 9, 2024 – Every time I hear someone tell me how to make a buggy whip, I get a little steamed; here an independent source confirms my stand on my hottest hot button
• Birds of a Feather – January 8, 2024 – Lunacy as both heredity and a communal meeting place
• Twelfth Night – January 6, 2024 – Powers of observation from the shotgun position
• Unh, Yunh – January 2, 2024 – mildly accepting the year 2024

2024 2022 2021 2020

2023

• Tiny Nonsense – December 30, 2023 – a trivial conversation and frugality
• Found it – December 26, 2023 – St. Precocious Day
• Christmas – December 25, 2023
• Writer’s Notebook – Final Entry – November 2, 2023 – The end of “blog” entries
• Bright Side – November 1, 2023 – A bit of Loose Change

• Contractor Reprise – October 31, 2023 – All episodes of “Contractor” in one page
• Contractor Episode XIII– October 30, 2023 – Awaiting Delivery – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode XII– October 29, 2023 – Can You Not See Them? – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode XI– October 28, 2023 – All a Bad Dream? – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode X– October 27 2023 – Striking a Deal – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode IX– October 26, 2023 – Part of the Second Part – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode VIII– October 25, 2023 – Party of the First Part – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode VII– October 24, 2023 – Where is the Camera? – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode VI – October 23, 2023 – And Why Am I Here? -Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode V– October 22, 2023 – Who Are You? -Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode IV– October 21, 2023 – Not Getting Any Smarter – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode III– October 20, 2023 – Rocks for Brains – Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode II– October 19, 2023 – How he Hell? -Episodic Hallowe’en flash
• Contractor Episode I – October 18, 2023 – Working Late at Night – Hallowe’en flash in 13 episodes
• Broomsticks and Black Cats – October 17, 2023 – Revisiting lovely Aggie, Sal, and Tess in “All Hallows Eve”; Zeus, by the way, is still something of a sissy, with reason, but still, I mean, he’s a Great Dane, for pity’s sake!
• Ramble – October 16, 2023 – The weather, gardening, and a jaundiced view of the writing art
• MSgt Saris – October 13, 2023 – If ever there was a ramble, this is it
• Loose Change – October 12, 2023 Giving up, Bucky? Hold on there. What you have here is a golden opportunity…
• Poker – October 11, 2023 – Do you have to declare four aces?
• Humor – October 10, 2023 – Is the clown by nature a happy man?
• Story Time – October 9, 2023 – A twisted little fable oddly reflecting on today
• Choices – October 8, 2023 – Three inane little reworks of old saws (adages)
• Why is it Lately I Don’t – October 7, 2023 – Companion piece to “Why is it Lately I Find Myself”
• Why is it Lately I Find Myself – October 7, 2023 – Changes in lifestyle and attitude as time passes
• Oh, That’s My Favorite! – October 6, 2023 – How many times has precious remarked to you “Oh! That’s my most favorite singer in the whole world!”? Didn’t you just want to strangle the precocious twit?
• Lamentations 0:00 – October 5, 2023 – Christmas catalogs past
• Heat Lightning – October 3, 2023 – A natural phenomena, not exactly as it is named, is explored in an early morning of sleeplessness
• A Diversion – October 2, 2023 – Introducing “Coffeehaus Debut” – a poemetric departure, a recitation embedded in a brief one-act play
• In A Hurry – October 1, 2023 – Philosophical poemetry

• Recent Poemetric Work – September 30, 2023 – An epic? Nah.
• Or So it Would Seem – Special September 29, 2023 – Very good reasons to be apolitical
• The Battle Rages – September 29, 2023 – Stackers against Sanity
• Punctuation – September 28, 2023 – Pretending to be grammar conversant
• A Terribly Short Story – September 27, 2023 – Once upon a time…
• Wacky Wisdom – September 26, 2023 – Having fun with words; no, seriously
• Recent Fiction Additions – September 25, 2023 – Showcasing a flash conversational piece about Grandpa’s conversations with his grandson
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – September 24, 2023 – The power of prayer?
• Wacky Wisdom – September 23, 2023 – Revisiting a gift horse
• Wacky Wisdom – Septober 22, 2023 – Feminists. We should leave it at that, but…
• Waiting for the Dew to Dry – September 21, 2023 – a quick ramble: lawncare, Libbies, Connies, and other vermin, and dealing with tradesmen
• Heebie Jeebies – September 20, 2023 – with a link to a bit of spookiness in advance of the High Holiday Hollowe’en
• Wacky Wisdom – September 19, 2023 – Briefly about anticipation
• Wacky Wisdom – September 18, 2023 – A little horse sense
• Overheard – September 17, 2023 – Satire on a press conference on AI and automated national voting
• Insomnia Relief – September 16, 2023 – Speculative fiction continuation of “Odss and Nnds” of 9/14
• Odss and Nnds – September 15, 2023 – Or what? January 1, 2024?
• Technology News – September 13, 2023 – Of software update to fix, protect, and enhance
• In The News – September 12, 2023 – Special – A for real news item kicked the old codger into a brief political rant.
• Evolution Gone Amok – September 12, 2023 – a humorous look at how humans influence evolution or, for non-beliefers, passive genetic engineering.
• Recent Creative Additions – September 10, 2023 – Filed under “Fiction/Poetry,” “Blurred Memory” – unusual fare from swpilcenwtrites; a melancholy anecdote about a chance reunion of two former flames
• Recent Creative Additions – September 6, 2023 – in keeping with the new habit of infrequent “blog” posts, a link to a recent addition hiding behind the “Non-fiction” menu tab

• August 31, 2023 – Done, done,and done.
• August 26, 2023 – Is there any value at all continuing?
• Black Holes and Stalagmites – August 25, 2023 – Standoff: Order v Stackers
• In the News – August 24, 2023 Special – lowbrow high parody
• Geographic Observations – August 24, 2023 – An exploration of writing failure
• Early Fall? – August 23, 2023 – Current weather here in the temperate north and a visit with Roger and Larry
• New Math – August 22, 2023 – Curiously inaccurate accuracies
• I Don’t Know – August 21, 2023 – “Comic books” as more than fanciful diversions
• Looks Like – August 18, 2023 – Pure ramble – no politics, gender or social innuendo
• Flashback – August 17, 2023 – Looking back through the archives, found a piece to fill-in while I dawdle with chores…
• Guest Blogger – August 16, 2023 – I dunno, ask Stranislaus
• Reckless – August 15, 2023 – Reckless driving should be a felony and that includes some driving habits you might not agree are “reckless”
• Placeholder – August 14, 2023 – A few more days before normal WP activity
• August 8 thru August 13 – Out of pocket no posts
• Did I mention? – August 8, 2023 – Apology for being on the road
• I Often Wonder – August 7, 2023 – Lunatic musings
• Start Small – August 6, 2023 – Glomal Warning
• Nothing to See Here Folks – Aug 5, 2023 – taking weekends off
• Science News – August 4, 2023 – NASCAR (oops! that’s NASA) recently committed an antenna adjustment error; the article referenced has otherwise interesting observations
• Loose Change – August 3, 2023 – Comfort zone — some work to keep us off balance…
• Kicked a Stone – August 2, 2023 – All about runaway mouths
• Dodged a Bullet – August 1, 2023 – When a writer’s notepad fails, there’s another way to corral idea mustangs – comes with a caveat

• Ecoengineering Wizardry – July 31, 2023 – More of the American business genius at work
• Nothing to See Here Folks – Jul 29 and 30, 2023 – Yup, nothing
• Marketplace – July 28, 2023 – Swap recipes, anyone?
• Stop Me If you’ve Heard This One… – July 27, 2023 – Dipping into the archives for a bit of flashy Noir
• Blips on the AN/FPS-117 Screen – July 26, 2023 – A bit of political musing in advance of 2024
• Where We Are – July 25, 2023 – A Loose Change snippet, a philosophic ramble
• Archival – July 24, 2023 – blowing cobwebs off a piece of Twisted Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends
• Timidity – July 23, 2023 – Not asking you to be Woke – asking you to wake up, step up, and voice your opinion – how else are we to learn the world is populated entirely by ignorant twits?
• Decision Sharing – July 23, 2023 – Division of labors and how that is approached around Chez Spwilcen
• Snicker – July 22, 2023 – Amused comments on an article about Teaxs’ placing a barrier in the Rio Grande
• Consolidating – July 21, 2023 – True “Rambling” and ongoing commentary on my own particular way of going about managing my efforts
• Opt-in – July 20, 2023 – Computer hardware and software purveyors continue their march into the jaws of shame.
• We Can Do Without – July 19, 2023 – pointless innovations and inventions
• This Year’s Naughty List – July 18, 2023 – Looks like I’ll be right up there at the top of Santa’s Naughty List
• Hidden Works – July 17, 2023 – A conversational visit with locals Roger and Larry
• Boondoggle – July 16, 2023 – If SCOTUS says, “No!” why, pay no attention, just go at it another way.
• Software Follies – July 14, 2023 – Crews are still at work…
• Technical Difficulties – July 9, 2023 – Do not adjust your laptop screen. What you are [not] seeing is not caused by alien intervention disguised as extreme sunspot activity. Crews are at work to correct the situation.
• Coke in the White House – July 6, 2023 – Celebrating MSM’s “all the news that’s fit to print”
• CB&M – July 5, 2022 – Can virtue and vice coexists?
• Engineering Wizardry – July 4, 2023 – New! Improved! (Yeah, right.)
• Generations – July 3, 2023 – An unofficial Calipers, Blades, and Mallets
• Little Men – July 2, 2023 – Little boys become men. Or do they?
• Odds and Ends – Juleye 1, 2023 – Political Quantum Physics

• In the News – June 29, 2023 – Can Canada and the US just get their {bleep} together?
• Kicking No Stones – June 28, 2023 – Nothing deeply philosophic, just observing folks I see as I walk country roads and draw some [ahem!] crotchety old bastid conclusions.
• Rights v Rights – June 26, 2023 – In the news: “They” won’t let us display our propaganda paraphernalia, lets us go on strike! We’ll show them {expletives} just who it is what runs this show!
• OCW conclusion – Reworked and final episodes
• Hallmark Cards Day – June 18, 2023 – No special day is needed.
• Miscellany – June 16, 2023 – A bit of humor from Winslow, Arizona and Cheyenne Wyoming and one serious observation about what has been too long in the news
• A Response Isn’t Always an Answer – June 15, 2023 – Exploring lazy language bordering on ignorance.
• Convinced – June 14, 2023 – Each of us has a few things we absolutely believe in
• Gentle Rains – June 13, 2023 – Belated but happy announcement of precipitation in Spwilcenwrites Precinct, which brought to mind a moldy oldie, which tied to two old rants, which – ah, never mind
• Non Sequitur – June 12, 2023 – Fun with believable nonsense
• Ultimate Flash – June 11, 2023 – Skilled cartoonists: the ultimate flash writers
• Writer’s Notebook – June 10, 2023 – A special brand of advice to writers
• Piccole Monete – 9 giugno 2023 – Per i passanti italiani
• Instant Insult – June 9, 2023 – A mini insult
• Whoa-up, Cadet! – June 8, 2023 – A speculative fiction “Kicked a Stone”
• In Memoriam – Bones – June 7, 2023 – Lost a best bud six years ago; now and again he “visits” bringing memories of times together – good and bad times. Even the bad times in retrospect were good because we handled them together.
• Kicked a Stone – June 6, 2023 – Detours
• The Final Word – June 5, 2023 – “File Under Peoplewatch” the kinds of folk you run into
• Oddly – June 4, 2023 – what warped wonders – memories?
• Odds & Ends – June 3, 2023 – Just that, and a link to a new “Calipers, Blades, and Mallets
• Quickly – June 2, 2023 – Short finger-flexing filler
• Unsettled – June 1, 2023 – Something missing or something not right; anyway unsettled

• Hidden Works – May 31, 2023 – Two from so far back in the archives, they have no “electronic” version
• Odds and Ends – May 30, 2023 – The weather and commentary on well-meaning but shallow “memorial” observances
• Double-Century Flash -May 28, 2023 – A two-hundred children’s story after a bit of mild old dewd grousing
• Calling All Industrial Engineers – May 27, 2023 – If, at the sidewalk cafe, I want cream with my coffee lack, why is my companion not charged more for cream and sugar? Going the other way, when I buy Fruity-Toasties sugar-free, they cost more than good old high fructose Crusty-Fruity-Toasties?
• Passing – May 26, 2023 – Do you remember? Do you care?
• A Vignette – May 25, 2023 – An almost-short story told by a young gent attending a family wedding describing some of the people there
• Galactic Calculus – May 24,2023 – A visit from the Aliens left an all too familiar conundrum
• Bag Lady – May 23, 2023 – A flashy dark short
• Everybody Up-to-date? – May 22, 2023 – Lighthearted nothingness a la FacePages
• Artificial Money – May 21, 2023 – Artificial Intelligence, artificial intelligence, but the most pervasive is artificial money
• Death is… – May 20, 2023 – Dangers lurk everywhere, watch out!
• Eye-to-eye – May 19, 2023 – Isn’t budding romance wonderful?
• Looking Back – May 18, 2023 – Political humor with a moral from August 3, 2020
• Hidden Works – May 17, 2023 – Exposing fiction not whored-off to a blog entry
• Arguing the Chicken and the Egg – May 16, 2023 – Did chickens cause eggs, or did eggs cause chickens?
• Sometimes, I Pray – May 15, 2023 – What would lead one to religion?
• Surrender – May 14, 2023 – Evabody gettin old. No exceptions. No sense in trying to deny it…
• Lies! Lies! Lies! – May 13, 2023 – Dispelling some urban myths, what Momma said, and “innocent” old sayings
• Sycophant Superfluity – May 12, 2023 – Peoplewatch – the title says it all
• Back to School – May 11, 2023 – Taking some adult writing courses to sharpen my skills
• Horror Genre – May 10, 2023 – A first attempt at this genre. Gotta admit, it scared the hell out of me
• Observation – El Condor Pasa – May 9, 2023 – Of blackbirds and condors, vultures, and buzzards and by a stretch of imagination many cannot manage, disguised social moral.
• Reparations – May 8, 2023 – In the news of late. What? You didn’t see it? Here are some links. I have too many questions begging for answers/ Do you have some questions of your own?
• Loose Change – May 7, 2023 – Raising a healthy crop of ‘shrooms
• Cosmic Flow – May 6, 2023 – Peoplewatch – narcissists
• What If? – May 5, 2023 – Consider all that’s happening, what if events were just a bit different or something else were added to the mix?
• WGA Whiplash – Special May 4, 2023 – What will happen with this Writers’ Guild strike? Anything good? Anything bad?
• TwoFer – May 4, 2023 – Messing with you about reduced rate subscriptions
• Gentle Rain – May 3, 2023 -Just enough to make working outside too sloshy, it’s a grand excuse to spend more time at the keyboard
• Hidden Works – May 2, 2023 – for a limited time, a look behind the curtain
• Odds and Ends – May 1, 2023 – Musing on a few items my news feeds fed me

• FYI – April 30, 2023 – Slamming access to general fiction closed
• Choreplosion – April 29, 2023 – Adventures in wordsmithing
• Funeral Shoes – April 28, 2023 – Explaining a spwilcenwrites-ism
• The Real Problem – April 27, 2023 – Remedying the ugliness of news
• Imagine a World – Special April 26, 2023 – Layoffs, firings, and executive Bee Ess.
• Crossword Clue – April 26, 2023 – I usually enjoy a mind-challenging diversion
• Gentle Rain and Ambition – April 25, 2023 – Rambling Stream of Consciousness. Why, it is the blog’s byline, you know?
• Fancy a Bit of Poemetry? – April 24, 2023 – Like limericks? Here’s a limerepic that still won’t require much more than a minute to read; it is a bit randy and has a few salty words scattered through it
• Quack, Quack – April 23, 2023 – Poultryman’s expertise might come in handy. A brief bit of “loose Change” for you to consider
• As Winter Leaves Us – April 22, 2023 – Revisiting “yellow snow” via “Calipers, Blades, and Mallets”
• Say Great Britain Special April 21, 2023 (4/13) – Representatives of our government do us proud when they visit overseas, sometimes when they appear at home and flex intellect and integrity.
• Dateline South Texas – April 20, 2023 – A snide crack at the most deserving segment of American society – what else? Politicians and business as usual in Washington D.C.
• Free Advice – April 19, 2023 – Off-page link to a snit of conversation about, well, about getting and giving “free” advice
• An Axe to Grind – April 18, 2023 – Someone asked…
• Anticrastination – April 17, 2023 – Planning ahead
• One Thou – April 16, 2023 – Celebratory
• Attention Span of a… – April 15 2023, You’ve heard the expression
• Fact Checkers – April 14, 2023 – Fact checking the Fact Checkers
• Stimuli – April 14, 2023 – What prompts a story, anecdote, or vignette?
• Apologies – April 13, 2023 – to all my friends I’ve not insulted
• Cens0rsh1p – April 12, 2023 – on a tear about the simple stupidity of PC-ness
• Bongo Rimshot – April 11, 2023 – Humorous poke at politics, the beat generation, and un-liberal, un-conservative bellyachers
• Bile – April 10, 2023 – Why I didn’t post what was planned
• Things Worth Missing – April 9, 2023 – We’re SO much better-off today, right?
• Stranger Than Fiction – April 8, 2023 – In the news – the MSM boobs are at it again
• Go After the Criminals – April 8, 2023 – “Guns” or people – fixing the blame
• Update – April 7, 2023 – Following up on “Demonstrations – April 7, 2023”
• Demonstrations – April 7, 2023 – Queer happenings in Tennessee in reaction to school shootings
• You Can Never Go Home Again – April 7, 2022 – On coming “home” after forty-odd years
• Did You Ever Notice? – April 6, 2023 – A ghenuwine rhamble- railroad trains and rural roads
• Offending None – April 5, 2023 – Absolutely Zero Triggers!
• Happenstance – April 4, 2023 – Tiny little anecdote
• Of Course, She’s “Mother” Nature – April 3, 2023 – Aptly named; Kicked a Stone”
• Physics 101 – April 2, 2023 – Calipers, Blades and Mallets – Physics lesson: Inertia
• I See What You Done – April 2, 2023 (4-1-23) – Learn the rules, how the game is played, then follow the rules, man, follow the rules.
• AI – April 1, 2023 – No joke. Can we talk about AI?

• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – March 31, 2023 – Wishes, horses, beggars, and riders.
• Absurd News – March 31, 2023 (3/30) – Exactly that: a spoof on what happens in this fouled-up society here in the US
• Overheard – March 30, 2023 – Ugly Duckling?
• Registered with the State – March 29, 2023 – Liberal absurdity explored conversationally
• Finally – March 28, 2023 – Have I turned the corner?
• Flash Blog – March 27, 2023 – Politicians have no sense of shame
• Rare – March 26, 2023 – Tornadoes everywhere
• Rerun – March 25, 2023 – Making Claxbury Corners available for end-to-end reads/rereads.
• Overheard – March 25, 2023 – Some specific types of people do not listen, and they do not listen, and they do not listen…
• unpunctuated – March 24, 2023 – Stabbing all the hip poetemetrists out there
• If You Are Interested – March 23, 2023 – Links to two fiction pieces not otherwise viewable from spwilcenwrites
• Make of it What You Will – March 23, 2023 – Loose Change
• 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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• 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?

• Atmospheric Dandruff – Novober 12, 2022 – Prognosticators and Procrastinators
• Dress for the Season – Novober 10, 2022 – A poetic bit of cowboy humor

• 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

• Where the Hell Did this Come From? – August 31, 2022 – A little poemetry
• Perfection and Protoplasmic Detritus – August 31, 2022 – A little research results
• Go Ahead, Make Your Case – August 30, 2022 – Call it what it is, please!
• Pursuit – August 28, 2022 – Horror in one-hundred words
• With Grace – August 27, 2022 – Cowhand blessings on a friend
• If That Don’t Scare the Hell Out of You – August 26, 2022 – Let’s make a baby
• Rain, Grass, Rabbits, Squirrels, and Whorehouses – August 26, 2022 – Weather, Lawn & Garden, vermin, vermin, and a vocation
• Sticks and Stones – August 25, 2022 – Are you a socialist, or what
• Morning Brief – August 25, 2022 – Student Loan forgiveness folly
• Roger and Larry – August 24, 2022 – Roger is a bit miffed. Larry has to drag it out of him.
• Squatters – August 23, 2022 – A modern fable. Okay, not buying ‘fable’? How about a fistful of analogy?
• Estabula – August 21, 2022 – Salvaged poemetry
• Asking Price – August 20, 2022 – Dicker and deal, dicker and deal. Nope!
• It’s Mine! – August 19, 2022 – Foolish (and dangerous) competition
• Best By Date – August 18, 2022 – Best if used by August 20, 2022
• Choices – August 17, 2022 (8-20) – A conversation
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – August 16, 2022 (8-20) – Lies and Passion
• Pressing Questions – August 16, 2022 – See the sign-off pattern?
• Imponderables – August 15, 2022 – Somebody wanna ‘splain to me?
• Winning Strategy – August 14, 2022 – More loose change
• Loose Change – August 14, 2022 – A worn-out analogy
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – August 13, 2022 – Remedying disappointment
• Morning Brief – August 12, 2022 – DIY!
• What and Why – August 12, 2022 – On creative writing
• Tower of Babel – August 11, 2022 – Beg pardon?
• Quickie Quiz – August 10, 2022 – Read the warning carefully
• Just Like That – August 9, 2022 – I’ve a new hobby pasttime avocation workload
• Vitalis and Old Spice – August 8, 2022 – Cosmetics and civilization
• I Forgot – August 7, 2022 – Self-promotion. Well, and a plug for The Chamber Magazine.
• Whoopie – August 7, 2022 – Locked and loaded
• Disclaimers – August 6, 2022 – Lactose intolerant? Gluten a problem?
• Where on the Dial is WKRP? – August 5, 2022 – Doctor Johnny Fever!
• Freebie – August 4, 2022 – Life goes on…
• Wardrobe Malfunction – August 4, 2022 – [Gasp!]
• Stop the Madness – August 3, 2022 – Need a new ink cartridge? Black, yellow, cyan, or magenta^TM?
• With Purpose – August 2, 2022 – Going about procrastination correctly
• Mister Science – August 1, 2022 – Dietary supplements

• If That’s Not Important – July 31, 2022 – And a dog named Astro
• Flash Friction – July 31, 2022 – Short short with a message
• Cure for Insomnia – July 30, 2022 – One of these methods surely will work for you
• Revenuers – July 29, 2022 – The {expletive} IRS messes with me at least six times a year
• Cool or Crude – July 28, 2022 – Mister Smooth
• Handwriting for the Wall – July 27, 2022 – Changes solidified
• Morning Brief – July 26, 2022 – Monkeypox, monkeypox, who got da monkeypox?
• They Saw Us Coming – July 26, 2022 – Praise for the OFU
• Roger and Larry – July 25, 2022 – Always an interesting tete a tete.
• As A Rule – July 24, 2022 – A quick observation
• How Was Your Day (Part 3) – July 23, 2022 – Conclusion
• How Was Your Day (Part 2) – July 22, 2022 – You have to ask?
• How Was Your Day (Part 1) – July 21, 2022 – Mine was, well, like about every other one since January
• Sightseeing – July 20, 2022 – Just a leisurely stroll…
• With A Nod To… – July 19, 2022 – Inspirations for posts
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – July 19, 2022 – How much the man?
• Mister Fixit – July 18, 2022 – Talltree Times advice to the lovelorn
• I Meet Some Interesting People – July 17, 2022 – A most enlightening conversation
• For a Cause – July 13, 2022 – Confused moments in time and place
• Nowhere a Champion – July 12, 2022 – Grumpy Old Man’s rambling opinion
• Inventory – July 11, 2022 – Takes stock, decide, live with it
• Ten Burning Questions – July 10, 2022 – Ready for that “Interview with the Author”?
• Eye of the Beholder – July 9, 2022 – Rodge takes the high road in this chat with Larry
• Civil Discourse – July 8, 2022 – Learn to argue like a MAN
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – July 7, 2022 – Is that procrastination or what?
• Helpful Tips – July 6, 2022 – Addressing a minor emergency
• Supply and Demand – July 5, 2022 – This economic theory hits home
• A Nice Cabernet – July 4, 2022 – Relaxing after chores…
• Sunday Newspaper – July 3, 2022 – Causing and caused by mental aberrations
• Helpful Tips – July 3, 2022 – You know shortcuts and economies around the homestead
• An Unusual Writing Challenge – July 2, 2022
• OCW Episode X – July 1, 2022 – A little “Last man standing” noir

• Sensory Flashback – June 30, 2022 Let’s get back to Kansas, Dorothy
• Tit for Tat – June 29, 2022 – How to play WordPress
• Morning Brief – June 28, 2022 – Tragedy everywhere; let’s address the causes in true liberal fashion
• I Meant to Ask – June 27, 2022 – Ponderables
• Am I Not Scientific? – June 26, 2022 – Outrunning technology
• Roger and Larry – June 26, 2022 – Roe v Wade?
• Disclaimers – June 25, 2022 – Consult your doctor…
• Kicked a Stone – June 24, 2022 – Big things seem small, and small things…
• Loose Change – June 23, 2022 – The important part of life is living
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – June 22, 2022 – The courage of your convictions
• Lip Service – June 21, 2022 – What they really said was…
• Interrupted Flow – June 20, 2022 – Writer’s Block?
• A.I. – June 19, 2022 – There is hope. Is there?
• A Changing Landscape – June 18, 2022 – Rural America is changing
• For the Press of Time – June 17, 2022 – Fortunately bad habits can be changed
• It Must be Me – June 16, 2022 – What’s up with web pictures left/right, front/back?
• Update – June 15, 2022 – A restored previous post “Breakfast of Champions”
• Teacher’s Pets – June 15, 2022 – Those insufferable twits
• Kicked a Stone – June 14, 2022 – Benefit of the doubt
• Loose Change – June 13, 2022 – More to life than…?
• Morning Brief – June 9, 2022 – Following-up on the Berlin news item…
• Morning Brief – June 8, 2022 – About the recent tragedy in Berlin
• Mister Sunshine – June 4, 2022 – Some of my favorite [kinds of] people
• Odds and Ends – June 3, 2022- All about “thinking.”
• Loose Change – June 2, 2022 – Why not? It’ll be fun!
• The Problem – June 1, 2022 – All we have to do to fix this, is…

• Patchwork and Nonsense – May 31, 2022 – Bubba comin’ atcha!
• File Under – May 30, 2022 – That’s insulting!
• Six Word Story – May 29, 2022 – Blip Fiction
• Overheard at the Keyboard – May 28, 2022 – Planning for changes
• Questions – May 27, 2022 – All you poemetricists out there, can you answer a question for me?
• Typecasting – May 26, 2022 – Don’t discuss the details of your story with a character.
• Accountability – May 25, 2022 – “Why,” you ask your self, “am I so angry?” Well, in general terms…
• Claxbury Corners – May 24, 2022 – Afterthoughts – Wrapping it Up
• Claxbury Corners – May 23, 2022 – Episode XX Loose Ends
• Claxbury Corners – May 22, 2022 – Episode XIX Enough Politics
• Flash Blog: See? – May 21, 2022 – An earlier sci-fi post is shown “spot-on”
• A Word of Caution – May 20, 2022 – Bullet list precaution
• Loose Change – May 19, 2022 – Is he for real?
• Bear With Me – May 18, 2022 – A PSA
• Claxbury Corners – May 17, 2022 – Episode XVIII Fallen Servants
• Life Rules – May 16, 2022 – Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow
• Old Crew Wine – May 15, 2022 – Episode IX Darkside Tommy
• Morning Brief – May 14, 2022 – Two buds, waiting on breakfast…
• Old Crew Wine – May 13, 2022 – Episode VIII Field Report
• The Interview – May 12, 2022 – An opportunity to chat with a blog “reader.”
• Where’d I Leave Off? – May 12, 2022 – Two kinds of people…
• In the News – May 11, 2022 Special edition – News in my feed about a pretend meat company not doing well.
• Cash Prize – May 11, 2022 – A Flash Blog. I propose a contest: $30.00 to the one the judges choose
• Kicked A Stone – May 11, 2022 – But first, a word from our sponsor
• File Under – May 10, 2022 – Calipers, Blades, and Mallets: lies and truth revisited
• Loose Change – May 10, 2022 – Good news and bad news
• File Under – May 9, 2022 – Loose Change: Lies and the truth
• Claxbury Corners – May 9, 2022 – Episode XVII West Coast Calling
• Kicked A Stone – May 8, 2022 – Troll Bait – People
• Old Crew Wine – May 8, 2022 – Episode VII Terms Reached
• Loose Change – May 7, 2022 – Informal splatters of philosophy
• Old Crew Wine – May 7, 2022 – Episode VI C Warburton Agency
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – May 6, 2022 – Ever want to be a politician?
• Claxbury Corners – May 6, 2022 – Episode XVI Leron Tackertt
• Old Crew Wine – May 5, 2022 – Episode V Hush Investigations
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – May 5, 2022 – Pennywise philosophy
• Cancel Culture – May 4, 2022 – About time for a new spin on this, and I got it
• Old Crew Wine – May 4, 2022 – Episode IV Searching for a Cyber-Dick
• Morning Brief – May 3, 2022 – Flashy Conversation: Let’s go organic
• Old Crew Wine – May 3, 2022 – Episode III
• Disheartening – May 2, 2022 – Old Crew Wine Episode II
• Trust Me, I’m an Expert – May 2, 2022 – Flashy conversation piece; if you’re inclined, a little racy
• Pond Scum With Feathers – May 1, 2022 – Sci-Fi Flash
• Planning Ahead – May 1, 2022 – Old Crew Wine Episode I. Some things shouldn’t be left to chance

• TOM – April 30, 2022 (dated 5/1/2022) – The Truth Of the Matter
• Prompts, Muses, and Writer’s Block – April 29, 2022 – Seriously you believe any of that?
• At Any Cost – April 29, 2022 – Flash, 100 words. How far in did you get before you saw it coming?
• Think Back Fifty Years (April 28, 2022) Mindspeak
• Claxbury Corners – April 28, 2022 – Episode XV City Lights
• Mini Insults – April 27, 2022 – Put it in your pocket; you’ll need it later
• Announcing Moods – April 27, 2022 – A new place to look for reading material
• Guest Blogger – April 26, 2022 – Dinosaur extinction – the REAL story
• Science Things Explained – April 26, 2022 – I have the answers for you, explained so you can understand the mysteries of science
• Technicolor Dreams – April 25, 2022 – A conversation with my new best bud, Reggie
• PSA – April 24, 2022 – In service to mankind: reducing the threat of late-onset Lexiphobia
• Disclaimers – April 24, 2022 – “Read entire label before using” kinds of things…
• Kicked A Stone – April 23, 2022 – Mini philosophy
• Claxbury Corners – April 23, 2022 – Episode XIV Election Year
• Gimmick – April 21, 2022 – Look ma! No hands!
• Claxbury Corners – April 21, 2022 – Episode XIII The River Again
• Aspirations – April 20, 2022 – What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Claxbury Corners – April 20, 2022 – Episode XII Clarion and Penny Pincher
• Curiosity – April 19, 2022 – Can someone clarify this for me?
• Claxbury Corners – April 19, 2022 – Episode XI Life Pulse
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – April 18, 2022 – A wee philosophy
• Addled Adages Addendum – April 18, 2022 – A little navel research
• I’m Confused – April 18, 2022 – File under – Addled Adages
• Repurposing – April 17, 2022 – File under Non Sequitur
• A Job Worth Doing… – April 16, 2022 – Loose Change Philosophy
• Disclaimers – April 15, 2022 – Hey! It ain’t my fault
• Double Dose – April 15, 2022 – Kicked a Stone and Calipers Philosophizing! Twofer!
• Limited Amount of Time – April 14, 2022 – Grousing and, well, uh, more grousing
• Loose Change – April 14, 2022 – Pennysworth philosophy
• Freebie – April 13, 2022 – A note to my Italian readers
• Alternate Opening Lines – April 12, 2022 – Once Upon a Time? We can do better.
• Her Ladyship – April 12, 2022 – A limerick
• Ain’t Got That Zing – April 11, 2022 – What if they hadn’t revised the title?
• Tried and Trite – April 10, 2022 – Hey. Enough hosing around. Let’s do this correctly.
• Talking to a Deaf Man – April 9, 2022 – communicating with the hard of hearing. No. Really!
• Every Newborn is Beautiful – April 8, 2022 – My! What a lovely child!
• Detestable Adworks – April 8, 2022 – You see them so often you ignore them. But do you, really?
• April 7, 2022 – There’s a sleeper in the “Writing” pull down. I’m not telling you where it is. No prizes if you find it either.
• Immigration – April 7, 2022 – Excuse me, what was your name again?
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – April 6, 2022 – Two bits’ worth of philosophy I deal with on a daily basis
• Nope, Not a Rant – April 6, 2022 – Before I get started for the day, some primal screams to purge the heebeejeebees.
• Short and Long of It – April 6, 2022 – Having fun with worn-out phrases
• Fishing and Demolition – April 5, 2022 – a Conversation-piece short story.
• Claxbury Corners – April 4, 2022 – Episode X Unexpected Changes
• Translated – Grandfather Was A Fisherman April 4, 2022
• Il Nonna Era Un Pescatore – 3, aprile, 2022 – Ora della favola
• Mini Insults – April 2, 2022 – Some folk fancy themselves hot stuff, even dressed like, um, ah, well, pigs
• Loose Change – April 2, 2022 – Penny Philosophy – Measure, please, “Happiness”
• While the Cat’s Away – April 2, 2022 – Stream of consciousness: lift and tote, lift and tote…
• QAP – April 1, 2022 – Advice column spoof
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – April 1, 2022 – Bargain basement philosophy
• Is Today Saturday? – April 1, 2022 – Lemme see. No. Maybe Friday?
• Test page

• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – March 31, 2022 – How good is your right-now vision?
• Mister Fixit – March 31, 2022 – Woodchucks, a good man, and a sixty-five Chevy C10
• Stream of Consciousness – March 31, 2022 – Rainy day drivel
• Morning Routine – March 30, 2022 – Anyone remember Ipana, the toothpaste?
• Preparedness – March 30, 2022 – You never know what’s next, so be prepared…
• File Under – March 29, 2022 – Mini Insults
• Flash Blog – March 28, 2022 – A new creative form!
• Doctor’s Visit – March 28, 2022 – The irascible old duck is at it again…
• File Under – March 27, 2022 – Mini Insults
• Just Passing Through – March 27, 2022 – Filed under “Loose Change”
• The Humble, Royal Vegetable – March 26, 2022 – Guest post by Stan Kowalski: He’s no foodie, but he knows what he likes
• Misplaced Faith – March 26, 2022 – Questions I probably shouldn’t pose in an open forum
• Loose Change – March 25, 2022 – Evolution of Hominidae
• See a Penny? – March 25, 2022 – Kicked a stone, and guess what popped-up?
• Say Buddy, Can You... – March 25, 2022 – A tiny little vignette about being down-and-out
• Overheard – March 24, 2022 – Boldly satirizing everything except Ronald McDonald
• Thelytokous Parthenogenesis – March 24, 2022 – I got sex, you got sex, we all got sex
• Interstate – March 23, 2022 – Ever dream of being a cop?
• Revisions to the Master Plan – March 22, 2022 – Everyone works with lists, don’t they?
• Desert Tour – March 22, 2022 – Thieves, thieves, and thieves
• In Place Of – March 21, 2022 – The final decision has been rendered
• Trust Me, I’m An Expert – March 20, 2022 – When the used car salesman says…
• Who Knew? – March 19, 2022 – Consider the Avocado: good, bad, or somewhere in-between?
• Late Night Radio – March 19, 2022 – Scanning the FM (and AM) bands looking for stay-awake music for long late night road trips
• Early Spring Yardwork – March 18, 2022 – Three approaches to the same spring chore
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – March 17, 2022 – When I don’t have a legitimate post, I wax philosophic
• Call It What It Is – March 16, 2022 – Technocrap and all things medicine
• Sex and Murder – March 15, 2022 – Got your attention?
• Someone Explain to me – March 14, 2022 – Alphabet soup
• Plants Are Animals Too – March 13, 2022 – Satirizing Usoffa’s penchant for “causes”
• Goofing Off – March 12, 2022 – Like, what do you expect this might be about?
• In My Defense – March 12, 2022 – But there’s an upside to my flaws…
• Read in the News – March 11, 2022 – My newsfeeds tell me and I wonder…
• Faults – March 11, 2022 – Personality inventory
• Talltree Technology Beat Part II – March 10, 2022 – Mister Fixit begins to see the picture
• Talltree Technology Beat Part I – March 9, 2022 – Mister Fixit on loan to another beat
• Candy Bar Trivia – March 4, 2022 – Don’t write it down, I’ll remember it…
• Rebuke – March 3, 2022 – Unscrupulous twits, I see you at work…
• Fortune Cookies – March 2, 2022 – Old Dewd Philosophy – Loose Change, Calipers, and a smidge of humor.
• File Under – February 29, 2022 (3/1) – Philosophical Ponderings

• Overheard – February 28, 2022 – Odd form: stageplay a group of guys
• Recognizing Futility – February 27, 2022 – Looks like I was, after another day with no progress
• Abject Failure – February 26, 2022 – Am I ready to throw in the towel?
• What I Am and What I Ain’t – February 25, 2022 -Interview in absentia.
• Etcetera – February 24, 2022 – “Calipers, Blades, and Mallets” and a bit of “Loose Change”
• Figure This One Out – February 23, 2022 – What did you say?
• Loose Change – February 22, 2022 – Not-really philosophy, Kicked a Stone, and Mini Insults
• File Under – February 21, 2022 – Calipers, Loose Change, Mini-insults
• Roger And Larry – February 20, 2022 – What is it with women and musicians?
• Are You Listening? – February 19, 2022 – Part II of learning to be a Yankee again
• Welcome Nawth, Dixie Boy – February 18, 2022 – Learning to be a Yankee again
• Results May Vary – February 17, 2022 – Green peas, anyone?
• Or Is It Me? – February 16, 2022 – Where are all the beautiful people?
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – February 15, 2022 – More brief chunks of philosophy
• Kicked a Stone – February 14, 2022 – Philosophy worthy of consideration
• Problem Solver – February 13, 2022 – No, really, I am a problem solver
• The Plan – February 12, 2022 – An anecdote from the library parking lot
• Spoilers – February 11, 2022 – Web site follies
• Air Travel in Retrospect – February 10, 2022 – In the olden days…
• Second Alert – February 9, 2022 – Short, short blind date story
• Restored – February 8, 2022 – Re-publishing a creative piece from August, 2020
• Worry – February 7, 2022 – A really short story. A bit dark. Violent if you will.
• Nickle Notions – February 5, 2022 – I was just thinking…
• Calipers, Blades, and Mallets – February 4, 2022 – Life tools from the Pennysworth Philosopher
• All You Foodies Out There – February 3, 2022 – A semi-serious question about green beans

• 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

• Environmentally Concerned – December 31, 2021 – Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose, and Reduce
• Claxbury Corners – December 30, 2021 – Episode IX Curtain call
• It Begged to be Written – December 29, 2021 – Vegan Speculative Fiction
• Worst Verse – December 29, 2021 – Is this a limerick?
• Portrait of Death – December 28, 2021 – Loos poemetry on dreams, death and use your imagination
• Artistic Licenses – December 27, 2021 – Infamously visiting famous styles
• In Brief – December 26, 2021 – A six-word story – Lexiphobes and dictaphobes rejoice!
• Environmentally Concerned – December 26, 2021 – Alternate fuels
• What’s Next? – December 25, 2021 – To be or not to be (The Bard); Do or do not (Yoda)
• Relocation – December 25, 2021 – An update of sorts
• Merry Christmas – December 25, 2021 – Greetings, and a short, short story, well, unh, flash, actually
• Freebie – December 24, 2021 – I’ve had all I can stand, I can’st stands no more…
• Has Anyone Else Noticed? – December 24, 2021 – Moribund “American” Males
• Memories – December 24, 2021 – Flow of consciousness, introspection
• Haircut – December 23, 2021 – This relocation is messing with everything
• Last Minute Gift Idea – December 22, 2021 – Humorous flash conversation
• PSA, Again, Last Time – December 21, 2021 – Ask me, I’ll do it.
• Anatomy Lesson – December 21, 2021 – Internal organs: heart and stomach…
• Human Behavior – December 20, 2021 – Are we animals or what?
• A Favorite Thing – December 20, 2021 – If I’m going to pig-out, this is my go-to…
• Fact of the Matter – December 19, 2021 – Think about it…
• Torn From the Headlines – December 19, 2021 – Six word stories?
• Improperly Maligned – December 18, 2021 – Song of Fruitcake
• What’s Wrong with US Part XII – December 18, 2021 – Find it on the weird.wild.wacky
• Not for Lexiphobes – December 17, 2021 – PSA “Crazy Wolf” has been restored
• Fact of the Matter – December 17, 2021 – Think about it…
• Environmentally Concerned – December 17, 2021 – Fossil fuel and associated pollution
• Trowels, Sharks, and Pedigrees – December 16, 2021 – Trolls, snarks and I dunno
• Decoded – December 16, 2021 – Laptop excuses
• What’s wrong with US Part XI – December 15, 2021 – Heroes and Essential Workers
• Old is the New New – December 15, 2021 – Look at the “new” stuff; is it rally “new”?
• PSA – December 14, 2021 – If it’s missing and you want to see it – ASK.
• What’s Wrong with US Part X – December 13, 2021 – Freedom of Speech and Me-centricism
• Preghiere di Natale – 12 dicembre 2021 – Ora della favola – Also in English – a short story (for the season)
• Dit-dit-dah-dit and All the Ships at Sea – December 12, 2021 – Not your normal AP newsflash. Well, not even any kind of newsflash. Also not for lexiphobes.
• What’s Wrong with US Part IX – December 11, 2021 – Yawn, nobody cares. Okay, since you asked – censorship and the PCP
• New QC Director – December 11, 2021 – Say, that lady is familiar. Is she the one…
• Environmentally Concerned – December 10, 2021 – Let’s start talking about this. Then maybe we will be inclined to do something.
• You! Put Down That Keyboard – December 3, 2021 – (Sigh!) Once again, I must play Road Warrior
• The Struggle Continues – December 3, 2021 – Unruly character taken to task
• Claxbury Corners – December 3, 2021 – Episode VIII Homecoming
• Reunion – December 2, 2021 – Met an old friend in the most unusual way
• Magic Door – December 2, 2021 – Elfin magic?
• Sh-h-h. Quiet. I’m Thinking – December 1, 2021 – Hark! The plot’s afoot!

• Claxbury Corners – November 30, 2021 – Episode VII Playhouse Perils
• Intelligent Parochials – November 29, 2021 – Troll bait
• Do Me A Favor – November 28, 2021 – Please and Thank you.
• Derailed – November 22, 2021 – Banging-away, just not posting
• What’s Wrong with US Part VIII – November 21, 2021 – Ubiquitous Likes
• What’s Wrong with US Part VII – November 21, 2021 – Celebrity
• So Flipping Tired – November 20, 2021 – Relapse threatening doldrum recovery
• Not Your Sweetheart – November 19, 2021 – “Now you have a nice day, Hon”
• Pure Fluff – November 19, 2021 – Brought to you courtesy of bad good drugs
• Telecommunicable Disease – November 18, 2021 – Wear your face mask 24×7
• Short Road Trip – November 18, 2021 – P/Barking Lot confrontation
• What’s Wrong with US Part VI – November 17, 2021 – Writers
• Puppet Man Episode 6 – November 17, 2021 – Final part of a 6-part Vignette: Conclusion
• What’s Wrong with US Part V – November 17, 2021 – Hirsutedness
• Kicked a Stone – November 16, 2021 – Power of a smile
• Mister Fixit – November 16, 2021 – Advice to the lovelorn
• Puppet Man Episode 5 – November 16, 2021 – Part 5 of a 6-part Vignette: On the crime scene
• What’s Wrong with US Part IV – November 16, 2021 – Certifications
• What’s Wrong with Us Part III – November 15, 2021 – Entitlements: handicapped, color; gender; senior citizens, military
• Puppet Man Episode 4 – November 15, 2021 – Part 4 of a 6 part vignette: Lunch break
• Unsolicited Endorsement No. 5 – November 14, 2021 – Let’s travel to Valencia, Spain and meet a craftsdman who will impress you with his versatility, skill, and knowledge
• Unsolicited Endorsement No. 4 – November 14, 2021 – Visiting a Micro Flash writer who will, on occasion, stoop to poetry
• Puppet Man Episode 3 – November 14, 2021 – Part 3 of a 6-part vignette: Shift start
• Unsolicited Endorsement No. 3 – November 12, 2021 – Another homage to a real poet
• Unsolicited Endorsement Again – November 13, 2021 – Here’s homage to and a link to a another real poet
• Unsolicited Endorsement – November 13, 2021 – First homage to a real poet and a link to get you to his showcase
• Puppet Man Episode 2 – November 13, 2021 – Part 2 of a 6-part vignette: Leaving for work
• What’s Wrong With US Part II – November 13, 2021 – Reality Television – this if for real folks
• Puppet Man Episode 1 – November 12, 2021 – Part 1 of a 6-part vignette: Safest house in the city
• What’s Wrong With US Part I – November 12, 2021 – Let’s do coffee – satire and demi-rant: can the US get any goofier?
• Veterans’ Day – November 11, 2021
• Snark Update – November 10, 2021 – Revealing the Flash Fiction piece that elicited a rather clever (but not original) snarky comment.
• The Butcher – November 9, 2021 – Actually, Le Boucher, but who cares?
• On the Road Again – November 9, 2021 -The last “road trip” bellyache, I promise
• Reassessing – November 8, 2021 – Using a vault piece to rethink a few points
• Exercise Routine – November 8, 2021 – A dirty little ditty
• Pass Again – November 7, 2021 – Forestalling another road trip piece
• Take Your Pick – November 6, 2021 – Three versions of a spy noir
• Cheating Teaser – November 5, 2021 – Secret agent noir from the vault
• Right Lane Closed – November 4, 2021 – Road Trip! Observations an grumbling
• Prisoner – November 3, 2021 – Travel restrictions, so to speak. And a ribald limerick-ish piece
• Bits and Pieces -November 1, 2021 – Energy conservation, Father-style; shortcuts better left to the “long” version.

• Two Martinis – October 31, 2021 – Flash fiction bar vignette
• Three Minutes or Less – October 30, 2021 – Truly a ramble…
• Whine, Women, and Song – October 28, 2021 – Aggregate look back
• Cleanup on Aisle Six – October 27, 2021 – A shopping we will go…
• Everyone’s a Critic – October 26, 2021 – A thing Quixotic
• Comfort Food – October 25, 2021 – A warm bowl of soup
• Damsel Distressed – October 23, 2021 – A tiny bit of poetry
• Speed Trap – October 22, 2021 – A little observational poetry
• Artificial Intelligence? – October 21, 2021 – Ready for autonomous machines?
• This One is a Freebie – October 19, 2021 – Someone tried to read “Dentist’s Office” which had been removed. It was restored.
• Dancing in the Night – October 18, 2021 – Apparitions?
• Not Quite Perfect – October 16, 2021 – A bit of a limerick
• Go Figure – October 16, 2021 – 700 word short story
• Blinkety-blankety Rain – October 15, 2021 – Weather fit for ducks
• Treasure Hunt – October 14, 2021 – Real estate prospecting
• Overexertion – October 13, 2021 – A snippet of ribald poetry
• Torn from the Headlines – October 13, 2021 – Six word story
• Off the Cuff – October 12, 2021 – Contrail Conundrum
• On the Fly – October 10, 2021 – Of self-fulfilling prophesy
• Universal Laws, Formulas, and Constants – October 8, 2021 – Fun with pseudo-science
• More Simple Advice – October 8, 2021 – Thumbnail philosophy
• Testing, Testing, One, Two – October 7, 2021 – I am an idiot
• Crass Commercialism – October 6, 2021 – sub-sub-mini rant
• First Aid Station – October 7, 7E5 (10.06.2021) – Flash SciFi Speculative. Read it, you’ll see
• Simple Advice – October 6, 2021 – Odds and ends philosophy
• Self-Diagnosis – October 5, 2021 – A little spoof for ya
• Third Attempt – October 4, 2021 – Lost in the sea of tolerance
• Euphemisms, Colloquialisms, and Fabrications – October 3, 2021 – What the hell’d he mean by that?
• A Choice to be Made – October 2, 2021 – A flash vignette
• Harvest – October 1, 2021 – A scene from this year’s harvest

• Good Old boys, Bugs, and Baptists – September 30, 2021 – Autobiographic vignette
• As Useless As… – September 29, 2021 – NSFW meanderings of impatience
• Primal Urges – September 28, 2021 – Mildly NSFW question on animal behavior
• From the Archives – September 28, 2021 – Delivery driver has observations on the character of city streets
• Polite Arguments – September 27, 2021 – Oh, come on! Let’s argue with the underlying idea being one of learning something
• Notebook Scraps – September 26, 2021 – Scribblings that never made it to post or rant pages
• Disclaimer – September 24, 2021 – Can we come to an understanding here?
• I’m Not Sure, But… – September 22, 2021 – Civil law and civil disobedience
• Engineering for Convenience – September 21, 2021 – I need it, so I’ll make it
• Does This Location Make Me Look Fat? – September 16, 2021 – a brief appearance

• 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

• How to Read a Blogger – March 30, 2021 Blog reader essentials
• Circumstances – March 29, 2021 Flash Fiction — Holding a grudge?
• In the News – March 28, 2021 Here there and somewhere else – what up?
• Pay the Piper – March 27, 2021 Conversation with Mother Nature
• Tomato Warnings – March 26, 2021 A night of storms
• Casual Repartee – March 25, 2021 Flirtation?
• One Other Thing – March 24, 2021 On being a good neighbor
• Twofer – March 23, 2021 Two six-word stories
• Broken Rules – March 22, 2021 To Haiku or not Haiku
• End of an Era – March 21, 2021 Marking time’s advance
• Speculative Flash Fiction – March 20, 2021 Survival in an alien world
• Dietary Restrictions – March 19, 2021 What’s all this about allergies?
• I Salute You – March 18, 2021 Special Bloggers
• St. Patrick’s Day – March 17, 2021 Just what it says, and a little ditty about aging
• Vignette Summer 1970? – March 16, 2021 Looking back on an early morning drive home
• Gone Too Far – March 15, 2021 A mild diatribe against self-appointed censors
• Planned Obsolescence – March 14, 2021 Honest-to-goodness flash horror fiction
• Idiocy – March 13, 2021 I’m working to be better at it. Surely it is an art form?
• Digital Synch – March 12, 2021 Keeping the digital displays correct
• Stereotype – March 11, 2021 Hey! Wanna stop in for a doughnut?
• Lights, Camera, Action! – March 10, 2021 Archive entry about show biz difficulty
• Night Watch – March 9, 2021 Front desk security guard tells us a story…
• Button Button – March 8, 2021 My shoes are ALWAYS right beside the office door
• Rodger and Larry – March 7, 2021 Politics and “labels”
• Missing You – March 6, 2021 WP disappearing acts
• Unplugged – March 5, 2021 National Day of Unplugging
• At A Loss – March 4, 2021 Poetry – Three bedrooms, one bath?
• Kids These Days – March 3, 2021 Four mini poems
• Miss Anne Thropy – March 2, 2021 Mini poem repugnant people
• Change of Heart – March 1, 2021 flash fiction, fickle fancies

• Surveillance – February 28, 2021 Flash fiction – Getting the goods on an unfaithful spouse
• Freedoms – February 27, 2021 “Freedom” is just another word for what?
• Concentration – February 26, 2021 Just struggling to get some work done
• Claxbury Episode VI – February 25, 2021 Second Thoughts
• Social Re-engineering – February 24, 2021 Making time in my schedule
• Taking Care of Gramps – February 23, 2021 Flash fiction Gramps has folks looking after him, not to worry
• Around the World – February 22, 2021 News from Texas, Colorado, the Netherlands…
• I’m Moving to Florida – February 21, 2021 Uncommon winter weather for us here…
• Romeo O Romeo – February 20, 2021 Claxbury Corners Episode V
• Ode to a Narcissist – February 19, 2021 I know them, you know them, and they are we
• Two-day Rule – February 18, 2021 EcoPoetry, six-word failure, and a tiny vignette
• Good Ideas – February 17, 2021 But were they “good” ideas? And a little sales-pitch fun
• Ski Mt. Pisgah – February 16, 2021 Snow and shoveling and demographics, a bit of ‘non sequiter’
• The Good the Bad and the Snarky – February 15, 2021 Misanthropy
• Curiosity – February 14, 2021 Unh, yeah – Curiosity
• Setting the Record Straight – February 13, 2021 Snowflakes, Fingerprints, the origin of cheese, alternate history, and onions revisited
• Science Corner – February 12, 2021 Why do onions make me cry?
• Responsibilities II – February 12, 2021 Alternate POV for Responsibilities
• Responsibilities – February 11, 2021 Flash Fiction 2:30 reading time
• CompuJurisDiction – February 10, 2021 Speculative Fiction
• GeoCheating – February 9, 2021 Flash Fiction
• The Envelope — February 8, 2021 Flash Cop Noir
• Hey, Jack! – February 7, 2021 Poetry and Fairy Tale Spoofs
• Uninspirations – February 6, 2021 Curious things I don’t like
• Liver and Onions – February 5, 2021 Claxbury Corners Episode IV
• Welding Class Was Cancelled – February 4, 2021
• Buckle-up Kiddies – February 3, 2021 Pennyworth, Calipers, Claxbury Corners Episode III

• Lost in the Fog – January 30, 2021 Keyboard Creep, Undependable Statistics, Calipers, and Pennyworth
• Heat – January 27, 2021 NSFW Mini-rant, Claxbury Corners Episode II, Calipers, Pennyworth, Flash Fiction, and a bit of Ramble
• Fits and Snatches – January 22, 2021
• Updates – January 20, 2021 Claxbury Corners Episode I
• Chuckling to Myself – January 18, 2021 (Mildly NSFW)
• Training Rabbits – January 15, 2021
• Today’s Special – January 13, 2021
• Spoon Conundrum – January 11, 2021
• Confusions – January 10, 2021
• Gonna Rain – January 8, 2021
• Odds & Ends – January 7, 2021
• Rantless Ramble – January 6, 2021
• Electron Wastebin – January 4, 2021
• Olfactory Alerts – January 1, 2021

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2020

• Closing Thoughts – December 31, 2020
• Euphemisms – December 30, 2020
• Fowl Language – December 29, 2020
• Remembering Gracie – December 28, 2020
• Late In From Tulsa – December 25, 2020
• Esteemed Guests – December 23, 2020
• Bait and Switch – December 21, 2020
• Letter From Venus – December 18, 2020
• Quarter to Two – December 17, 2020
• Minute Quiz – December 16, 2020
• Interview – December 15, 2020
• Doggie Bag Blues – December 14, 2020
• Late Post Today – December 13, 2020
• Christmas in July – December 12, 2020
• Evening Update – December 11, 2020
• Back to Work – December 10, 2020
• Apologies – December 9, 2020
• Thirty-nine Ford – December 8, 2020
• Winning Numbers – December 7, 2020
• Turning Tables – December 6, 2020
• Shameless Self-Promotion – December 5, 2020
• Service Alert – December 4, 2020
• Beg Pardon? – December 3, 2020
• Bottles, Belts, Buffoonery – December 2, 2020
• Again I Ramble – December 1, 2020

• December Already – November 30, 2020
• Customer Service – November 29, 2020
• Here and There – November 26, 2020
• Ramble On – November 25, 2020
• Morning Coffee – November 24, 2020
• Service Alert – November 23, 2020
• QAP – November 22, 2020
• Insouciance – November 21, 2020
• Explain to Me – November 20, 2020
• Clutch Chronicles IV – November 19, 2020
• Clutch Chronicles III – November 18, 2020
• Clutch Chronicles II – November 17, 2020
• Clutch Chronicles – November 16, 2020
• Random Thoughts About Love – November 15, 2020
• Waxing Poetic About Love – November 14, 2020
• From the Vault – November 13, 2020
• Senior Day Part 3 – November 12, 2020 — Checking Outm (NSFW)
• Senior Day Part 2 – November 11, 2020 — The Main Event (NSFW)
• Senior Day Part 1 – November 10, 2020 — Getting There (NSFW)
• Fluff – November 9, 2020
• Feelin Lazy – November 8, 2020
• Special Edition – November 6, 2020
• Experts Say – November 6, 2020 (for November 7)
• Whiskers – November 6, 2020
• Numbers – November 5, 2020
• Leadfoot – November 4, 2020
• Borscht – November 3, 2020
• Building 431 – November 2, 2020
• Goals – November 1, 2020

• Big Dogs, Little Dogs, and Wives – October 31, 2020
• Robert Jackson – October 30, 2020
• Blue Eyes – October 29, 2020
• If Today is Tuesday – October 28, 2020
• People Amaze Me – October 27, 2020
• MSM Update – October 26, 2020
• Autumn Leaves – October 25, 2020
• MSM Reporting – October 24, 2020
• Community Service – October 23, 2020 (NSFW?)
• Oh Say Can You See – October 22, 2020
• Once Upon A Time No. 2 – Big Bad Got A Bum Rap – October 21, 2020
• Redress – October 19, 2020
• Groceries – October 16, 2020
• Nine-sixteenths – October 14, 2020
• At the Co-op – October 12, 2020
• And the Winner… – October 9, 2020
• Ramble Rumblings – October 7, 2020
• Unicorns and Powerpoint – October 5, 2020
• Minority – October 2, 2020
• Perfect – October 1, 2020 (NSFW)

• L.O.D.D. – September 30, 2020
• Aisle Three, Today Only – September 30, 2020
• Lunacies – September 28, 2020
• Shorthand – September 25, 2020 (NSFW)
• A Blog, Eh? – September 23, 2020
• Compost – September 21, 2020
• Truly Rambling – September 19, 2020
• Experimental – September 18, 2020
• Incident Management – September 16, 2020 (NSFW)
• More Than Normally Embarrassed – September 14, 2020
• Not Gonna Do It – September 11, 2020
• Back in the Saddle – September 9, 2020
• September Chores – September 7, 2020
• Artists and Artistry – September 4, 2020
• HOA, Walt and Isaac – September 2, 2020

• Schedules and Popcorn – August 31, 2020
• Liars and Lying – August 28, 2020
• Just Passing Through – August 26, 2020
• An Exceptional Weekend – August 24, 2020
• I’m an Idiot – August 21, 2020
• See Anything Different? – August 19, 2020
• High Summer – August 17, 2020
• Occupation – August 14, 2020
• Favorite Insults (No. 4) – August 12, 2020
• Wardlow and Spencer – August 10, 2020
• Favorite Insults (No. 15) – August 8, 2020
• Searching for the Cure – August 7, 2020
• Favorite Insults (No. 3) – August 6, 2020
• Once Upon A Time – No. 1 – August 5, 2020
• Favorite Insults (No. 7) – August 4, 2020
• Hedging My Bets – August 3, 2020
• M vs. F – August 2, 2020
• Context – July 1, 2020

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