I am in lovely Minneapolis, second day of Fourth Street, which got off to an excellent start yesterday. So many Viable Paradise alums here! The writers of each year have been bonding into tight networks of mutual support and inside info. It's great to see ( Read more... )

Does anyone else watch the evolution of agreed on invisible rules--custom--on the internet? Human behavior adapting to the rapid proliferation of tech, in this case, the increasing ability through powerful search engines to find, if one wants, just where people might be talking about you or something you do? (I guess I'll find out if this post ( Read more... )

Feel free to skip though I will keep this short. But 'smorning as I walked the dogthings, I passed the next door neighbor's and her friend was out fixing planters. He made reference to "when she gets back.." and I asked where she was, thinking she was on a work related trip, to be told, "Oh, she's in Tonga, swimming with the whales ( Read more... )