27th July 2007
I still remember watching my dad up to his waist in a rushing Colorado stream casting flies for trout. I was too young for that kind of fishing (although at the age of six I had caught a trout off the bridge in front of our home, using a spinning reel an...
27th July 2007
I don’t know why I thought I could get away with it.
When my cat “Bear” jumped onto my lap expecting his morning petting session, I wondered if THIS time I could get away with reading the newspaper while giving him a few off-hand, preoccupied str...
09th May 2007
The high pitched squeal inside Dan's head sounded like a dentist's drill searching for a back molar. There was no way of shutting it off. The invisible drill screeched night and day, and the only time he couldn't hear it was when he was asleep. At times i...
17th November 2006
Bob squinted at the email and began to read:
?Dear eBay User, as part of our security measures, eBay Inc. has developed a security program against fraudulent attempts and account thefts. Therefore, our system requires further account verification??
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10th November 2006
He leaped out of the cage and grabbed me around the shoulders. My shock quickly turned into amazement. He hadn't sunk his claws into me! My thought was, "This cat definitely knows good manners. Somebody has worked with him." I looked at the ticket on ...
09th November 2006
Bob pushed the shutter release button and…NOTHING HAPPENED. The football passed into his son's hands and the actual photo he took was one of a cheerleader's pom-pom. Bob missed the touchdown too. He resisted an insane urge to slam the camera to the g...
27th September 2006
Bill was getting frustrated and desperate. He'd being trying to promote his website for months with little or no success.
Adwords didn't seem to be working. He'd devised the most fiendish ads he could think of and set them up on Google only to fin...
30th August 2006
"For Your Immediate Attention! Don't Lose Your Account! Update Immediately!"
Bob opened the email and was confronted by the logo of one of his major credit card companies. He had been carrying the card for some time, and had used it for a lot of online...
30th August 2006
In Part 1 of this series we discovered that there was another way to publish besides submitting our manuscript to New York publishers and depend on a editor in their early teens to pass it "up the line" to a senior editor who might become interested in it...
25th August 2006
One major problem you encounter as a cat owner involves your cat's use (or non-use) of her litter box.
This is probably one of the most frustrating issues that arise in caring for your new cat. You buy a litter box, often an expensive one, fill it wit...
21st August 2006
Let's say you're a writer who has written a few things that you've tried to get published. Let's say you've even had some success. You've submitted your novels, short story and poem collections, or magazine articles to New York publishers.
After rece...
