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I don’t know whether it’s a wider cultural shift or simply that my friends and I are getting older, but a number of years ago I noticed that many people in my life were getting fed up with the traditions our society has established around Christmas gift-giving. I had long-standing […]

Party Kris Kringle

There’s nothing inherently confused about the expression “money is the root of all evil.” I don’t happen to agree with it, but that’s a philosophical point that can be debated. The confusion comes in since most people who use the expression think they’re quoting the Bible (and often are trying […]

Confused Expressions #10: Money is the Root of All Evil

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My story “Beat-Down” is scheduled to be published by www.EveryDayFiction.com on October 20. Here’s a teaser: “What’s up?” Patricia said to Adrian. Jason already knew; of course he already knew. “Beat-down,” he said. Adrian nodded, the smile growing larger, more leering, more malicious. “No,” Patricia said. “Don’t.” But it was […]

Forthcoming Story: Beat-Down

When I was younger, a friend said to me—if memory serves, in response to my resolute disinclination to smoke cigarettes with him—”Your body is your temple, isn’t it?” It was the first time I’d heard the expression, and although I’ve heard it many times since, it seems no less ridiculous […]

Confused Expressions #9: My Body is My Temple

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Before several high-profile cycling accidents and enough close-runs of my own changed the focus of the last few bike logs to safety, the initial ones were all about the benefits I was delighted to find by cycling to work. As I remarked in a previous entry, one of those unexpected […]

Bike Log #6

For reasons personal and interesting only to myself, I’ve been thinking about people who complain regularly (often with the preamble that they aren’t the type of person who likes to complain), and the very old expression about which wheel gets greased. There is truth to the phrase, of course (otherwise, […]

Confused Expressions #8: The Wheel that Squeaks … and Squeaks …

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