Okay, it’s not easy to imagine Lewis Carroll pitching the Alice books to literary agents, but let’s not let that stop us!
Pitching Alice in Wonderland
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How not to be acquired by a cat
Yes, I know. You think you are wise in the ways of not being acquired by a cat. You avoid pet shops and cat-themed videos on YouTube. When visiting cat-acquired friends you avert your eyes from the walking furballs. (The cats. It’s okay to look at your friends.) But...
Exercise! What have we got to lose?
This just in: exercise doesn’t help you lose weight. Say you’ve eaten a Milky Way -- accidents happen -- and you want to burn it off. Apparently you have to leap about aerobically for at least 13 hours in a very hot room under the amplified tutelage of an instructor...
Snoring zombies: a whole new genre
For what you are about to read, you can blame two women called, on Twitter, @rosamundi and @thefrolick. Classy and erudite (no, we've never met, why do you ask?), they normally tweet about Baroque music, fine wine, and bicycles. But today we had this exchange on...
Trip planning for masochists
There are masochists and then there are masochists. That wasn't clear? Sorry. I’m a bit tired. What I meant to say is that there are masochists in a sexy “fun if you like that sort of thing” way, and then there are masochists like me. We non-sexy masochists don’t need...
From the Editor’s Corner
As I noted in a guest post on Tammy Patrick's excellent blog, Nurse’s Notes, I've been thinking about high school after a recent visit from one of my oldest friends. I wasn’t one of my high school's cool kids. My hair insisted that it was Born Free and refused to be...