TECHNOLOGY IS OUR FRIEND by Deborah Elliott-Upton I used to be computer literate. I’m not sure what happened, but something called dll has caused me more trouble than I ever imagined. I’ve run across this despicable (thank you Daffy Duck – and Mel Blanc – for such a delicious word and visual to pop into […]

THE TYING OF THE BUN by Robert Lopresti Back in November I found myself (Hey! There I am!) in the Los Angeles Public Library. The guidebook I bought called the Central Library “the hippest building in town.” I didn’t see enough of the city to make a fair comparison, but I liked it better than […]

I HATE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS — SO HERE ARE MINE by Melodie Johnson Howe I will try to write twenty pages a day. Okay, ten pages. Five is really doable. Actually one good page is better than five rambling ones. In fact a good paragraph is … yet one perfect sentence … even a single […]