Yesterday as I was running, I looked up the street and saw a stopped car waiting for what I thought was a deer to cross. But as I got closer I realized it was a dog. One of those huge Marmaduke dogs. Not being very tall, I probably would have been able to look in [...]

In my core conditioning class the other day, someone told me that Jan 13th was the official day most people gave up on their resolutions. Apparently after two weeks, achieving a goal becomes too hard. An article in the Guardian UK reports on a psychologist who says people don’t achieve goals because they don’t make [...]

I recently shared a goal of mine to read more literature. Actually I think I referred to classics. Is there a difference? What is literature anyway? This debate comes up sometime at the Virginia Festival of the Book in which genre authors feel compelled to defend their work. Personally, I like genre fiction. I like [...]