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"Ballparking" the Debate, and Election Day Predictions

Back in the days when I was super active with my high school debate program, there was a winning strategy regularly employed called “ballparking.”  In a debate round, one debater takes the affirmative...

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The Day That Is The Day

It was just about ten months ago when I first posted a story on Open Salon called “Night of the Hunter,” about the time when my cat Homer—who I’d adopted some twelve years earlier as an abandoned and...

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And It Only Took Four Hours to Get This Shot...

 People ask all the time how Homer is coping with his new-found fame, and I always answer that, for the most part, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know.  It’s true that he’s been getting a lot more treats...

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A Canticle for Vashowitz

Yesterday morning, I left Vashti at the veterinary hospital where she will spend the next several days receiving intensive treatment for her kidneys, which are failing.  There’s a range of scenarios...

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On Superstitions, Animal Cruelty, and a General Rant

Two things happened today that infuriated me.  Granted, I'm on edge these days--between Vashti, the book proposal I'm working on that alternately thrills and terrifies me (good news--it's another cat...

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