Check? Check!

The little check boxes have proliferated on my planner book pages

Free! Free! Gifts?

Even if you never read the Aeneid, you've probably heard the saying to " Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Keep Tech Out of Christmas!

Keep AI out of Christmas!

AI

Let's start by saying that I have no desire to "speak" with my editorial program's new AI feature. Despite having worked on my doctorate, master's, and bachelor's degrees, I remain at the root of the folksinging road bum who dropped out of high school. I don't want some idiot savant telling me how to improve …

AI and US

I have no illusions that my posts are some tremendous eternal bequest to our literary heritage. I share them freely with our WordPress community for the pleasure of writing and sometimes getting a response. What I am not interested in doing is offering free training to AI. On my posts are a prominent statement that the material is copyrighted …