Students were required to listen to Ted Cruz – under threat of fines – which seems just plain mean. Also agonizing.

In case you didn’t hear, the students at Liberty University were required to attend Ted Cruz’s speech announcing his candidacy for President last week. Failure to do so would have…

Continue ReadingStudents were required to listen to Ted Cruz – under threat of fines – which seems just plain mean. Also agonizing.

The two reasons that people like foods that they initially despise are exactly the two reasons that I still don’t like those foods.

I’m known to have a limited palate. It’s not as limited as many of my friends contend, but there are admittedly large numbers of foods that I do not like,…

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The author Julian Barnes would kill me, and defacing books is a terrible thing, but don’t you think this is also an AMAZING idea?

While attending a book club recently, a woman told me that the book they read before my book was Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. “And something really strange…

Continue ReadingThe author Julian Barnes would kill me, and defacing books is a terrible thing, but don’t you think this is also an AMAZING idea?