A Gnome's Ponderings

The Business Men and the Cat In their stuffy board room with their overstuffed bodies sitting in overstuffed chairs, the great men of bu...

Okay. I’m sitting down to do something that I really don’t like to do. Bash a children’s game. Because, in so many ways, it’s unfair and too...

The Perfect Rose Old Man Memory took down a heavy book from a shelf in his library. Both the book and the shelf are covered in dust. The...

On a whim, I revisited The Mad Scientists Club, a children’s series by Bertrand R Brinley. It’s probably been at least twenty-five years sin...

Beneath the Tree The poet sits beneath the cherry tree. In his hand is his manuscript and his eyes are shut. From behind his eyes, t...

Websters defines tone as ‘general character, quality, or trend’, as well as ‘ style or manner of expression in speaking or writing’. Okay, i...

While I was at RinCon 2019, I passed by a table that had a bunch of boards on it that were clearly for an abstract. I asked some questions, ...