Now Playing: “Unforgettable,” Natalie Cole and Nat “King” Cole Word Raccoon had a hunch today. She suspected there might be… Read more Unforgettable

I finished reading a novel today and found myself with thoughts I wanted to share. Reader, I also found myself… Read more Autumn Nights Sangria

Today Word Raccoon and I spent entirely too long mulling over the terms dramatic irony and proleptic irony. While we… Read more Ironic Distance 

Now playing: Xanadu, by Olivia Newton-John I’m writing a series of poems I’m tentatively calling Threshold.  When Word Raccoon and… Read more Notes from the Threshold Life

Now Playing: My Life Would Suck Without You (Kelly Clarkson) I was trying this weekend to pack for a short… Read more Meter, Poetry, and the Unfinished Tasks

Word Raccoon didn’t spot them first. Someone else did, a thrift shop patron with a good eye for hidden things… Read more Word Raccoon Fashions Art Deco Bookends! 

Now Playing: She’s in Parties by Bauhaus  So the medical group I go to asked if I wanted to take… Read more WR Investigates: My DNA, Apparently

It’s Labor Day weekend, planned over here as a thrifty “staycation.” Word Raccoon insists we have done plenty of the… Read more Word Raccoon Dubbed a Metamodernist?