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Tilting at Windmills: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

I’m not sure what modern horror made me wonder why today’s music is so depressing (maybe Kanye West selling swastika ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Stenographer and the Spymaster

Although I’ve never had a wild desire to be a 21st Century Mata Hari, I admit to a certain admiration ..


Tilting at Windmills: Love Letter to a Typewriter

Whenever I think about my favorite writers, I image them hunched over manuscripts, their brains filled with plots, characters, and ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Melinda Bittle

I don’t know if I’m writing this because I recently saw a documentary on television about parents and teachers putting ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Chicken and the Rooster – A Fable

Six hens lived in the chicken coop at the McGilvery Farm. Milly, Josephine, and Mabel occupied the nesting boxes on ..


Tilting at Windmills: Trashy Reading

A few days ago, I was strolling down Main Street when I walked past an old-fashioned barbershop. It had every ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Further Adventures of Stupidly Named Drugs

Have you ever noticed (of course you have!) that a bewildering number of medications introduced over the past few dozen ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Winter Weary

Winter weary Winter Woe I am sick of All this snow. Sniffles. Sneezes Runny nose Frigid fingers Frigid toes. Eaves and gutters Frozen ice Petrified Stalactites.  Walk with peril. Drive with dread Ice ..


Tilting at Windmills: Picklepuss

When she was very young, Marigold had a habit of sticking out her lower lip when she was angry. Her ..


Tilting at Windmills: Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.

The fireplace is going crackle, crackle, crackle, and when I look into it, I amuse myself by thinking up ways ..


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