I confess: I’m a little obsessive. About a lot of things, but especially when it comes to writing and hats. And going barefoot. But I’m [...]

An important piece of our literary history is about to die a very slow, agonized death. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain’s famous tale of [...]

Using animals to sway consumers has been an advertising ploy for decades. Who can resist a fluffy golden retriever puppy selling toilet paper or a [...]

While blog-hopping, I came across Canadian publicist Corey Redekop’s website. Embedded in one post was a book trailer for Doug Harris’s You comma Idiot, due [...]

Something—I don’t know what, but we shall blame word sprites—reminded me of the word “travertine” today.  I thought about it, and I came to the [...]

On my drive this morning, I saw a sign for the Plaque Shack.  And it struck me that plaque is a homonym: it has multiple [...]