New Year’s Change with The Hobbit

I love how my sister decorates her Christmas Tree. My tree – when I have one, which I haven’t recently thanks to destructo-cat and the perception amongst relatives that since we don’t have children, we don’t deserve to host Christmas, or maybe it’s because the last Christmas we hosted was a disaster that ended with …

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End of the Year Inventory

Do you find yourself tempted by those self-assessments on the internet? The ones that encourage you to take inventory of your life, your strengths, what’s holding you back, and promise to provide direction? I am inevitably suckered in by these assessments. I faithfully copy them into Word, and spend hours completing them, getting more and …

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Chewing on Your Shroud

One theory about the origins of vampirism is that people created vampire folklore to explain natural occurrences that they didn't understand, among them, the strange sounds they sometimes heard near recent - but not necessarily fresh - graves. [See, for example, Vampires, Burial, and Death.] We know now that these sounds are the natural sounds …

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