A few days ago, this blog gained Follower #100. I am still savouring the moment, even though I can’t swear exactly when that moment was, and I’m even uncertain about exactly which person was the 100th follower. “Exactly which person” — what a crazy prosopagnosic phrase, as if all readers were a blur of clones. Quite the opposite! The […]
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Here I am at the mysterious Zq post, published by me, apparently. Some of you commented when this page was nothing but the headline: Zq. You were puzzled. So was I. What did Zq mean? To reveal that Zq was accidentally posted by a fat finger on my iPhone is too simple. Surely everything has a […]
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“Why I blog my poems.” Whoa, that sounds as if poetry-blogging is a way of life instead of yet another redundant project thrust into my overloaded schedule a mere four weeks ago. It sounds as if I know what I’m doing. All bluff. Poems in the Wild. Redundant. Pointless. Impulsive. Nauseating. Embarrassing. Time wasting. Pretentious. Amateurish. Unworthy of you. So […]
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Oh, the wonderful James Wallace Harris has done it again. This time he has written his thousandth essay that looks too long to read, but is in fact something I (as usual) am compelled to read to the very end, nodding or squawking all the way through. One point that crops up repeatedly rings a […]
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Before Blogging 101, I used to comment on blogs without any worries, just as the spirit moved me. I never thought much about what to say or how to say it. But in Blogging 101 we were given guidelines on how to make valuable comments, and I’m still thinking about those. One tip: “Mind your manners. If you wouldn’t […]
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