Finished doing my taxes.

Had a dream I was writing an article about how the #gays were going to save America. They were going to rise up and teach us the true lesson and value of authenticity, how America could finally become true to itself. Had some cool ideas for names. The artwork was gorgeous.

You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside. — Ursula K. LeGuin

Nothing beats the sound of a wood chipper grinding away twenty feet from your window while you're trying to nap.

Just read my first article which left off saying A.D. for years following Christ's death. What a great idea! They continued to indicate B.C. years, of course, but once you do that, why even mess with A.D.? How refreshing, to see them say 19, and that's all!

Dreamt of a "peckinshaw," the little indentation that forms in the point of a recently sharpened pencil lead.

The main problem with quitting #pot is that you realize how boring TV really is.

The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself. - Ray Bradbury

I love it when I start a book and realize I'm in the hands of an expert. Not boring, embarrassing, or annoying but exciting, surprising, and even enchanting. Maybe one in twenty books, if I'm lucky. #amreading

"Call me to bed each states with yaw." A complete chapter from a book by Patrick O'Brian I was reading in my dream. #dreamreading

Exquisite prose won't fix a bad story, but a good story will fix bad writing. Who cares about weak writing when the story is good? Nobody. #amwriting

Tariffs are a great way to start a global recession.

#meatcake My niece made a meatcake for her hubby's b-day...with mashed potato icing!

So bizarre that Elon pulled a heil Hitler salute at Trump's inaguration.

Trump has decreed that everything in the world is now called #America

The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America newrepublic.com/article/190635… via The New Republic

The world according to #Trump: The Pacific Ocean is now the American Ocean. The Moon is now the America. The Planet Earth is now Planet America. The Milky Way is now called the American Way. The entire Universe is now called the entire America. Oh yay. What an ass he is.

I wonder how many people are like me, lying in bed trying to sleep but so pissed off at Trump that all they can do is lay there and seethe. And I'm a lifelong conservative. A true conservative doesn't rename the Gulf of Mexico. Oh pshaw.

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