The land is exceptionally beautiful.

The land is exceptionally beautiful.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific read more

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

The times they are a-changing.

The times they are a-changing.

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They read more

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.

On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at read more

On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at the state level, revenues beyond the limit can be used to reduce existing taxes or as cash rebates.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.

That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.

You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just read more

You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us.