Hello again, people. I’ve fallen into a writing rut after having to produce mountains of words upon mountains of words for non-blog purposes (and being distracted by The Amazing Race, which is currently occurring in some capacity or other 3 times a week on local TV channels), but we’ll see how this fares. For those... Continue Reading →
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