Who Should I Thank?
Culinary Geography and Metaphysics of the Dinner Table
Louche Leaves
An Irregular Journal of Thoughts, Stories, Ideas, and Recollections
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Disappearing Queen Anne’s Lace
The Queen's Legs are Hairy
Micro-Nostalgia
If This Tiny Piece of Land Could Talk
A Dumpster Fire in the Sky
How we use words to avoid facing the truth
The Earwig as Fellow Earthling
Philosophy in a Wet Bathing Suite
Where No Grammarian Has Gone Before
Fowler, Orwell, Bryson, and a Boardroom Bursting with Executives
From Truth in a Toga to Truth as Insulation
And Oprah's Twisted Gift of "My Truth"
Thank You For Your Loyalty. Now Buy Something!
The Telemarketing Script and Costume Department
Improbable Neighbours
A Corner of Transgressive History
The Quiet Men
A Father and a Father-in-Law
A World in a Dish: The Genealogy of a Keepsake
Objects have their own history, too
Crazy Cat Lady: Nine Lives of a Stereotype
From Saint Gertrude, to The Simpsons, to the Vice Presidency of the U.S.A.
A Frenchman in Dog Canyon
The Recovery of François-Jean Rochas, Known as Frenchy
The Mother of the Economy is Always Pregnant
Morality and Psychology as Profit Centre
Discernment or Despair
Outer quiet weighing down the inner shouting