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Thank good­ness, our shared val­ues are served. An arti­cle from the Raleigh News Observer tells of a group of con­cerned par­ents who are stand­ing up for val­ues. Theirs. Yours. And Mine, appar­ently. Says the N.O.: “A local Chris­t­ian activist group and sev­eral par­ents urged Wake County school lead­ers today to stop requir­ing stu­dents to read …

You know about Occam’s Razor, right? The law that posits that the sim­plest solu­tion to a prob­lem is usu­ally the right one? Like when your TV doesn’t work, the first thing you check is that the plug is actu­ally in a socket. Well, in my house we have some­thing called Bill’s Ham­mer, which posits that …

Ear­lier in the week, dared me to start a novel the next day. To prove I’m above such obvi­ous attempts at manip­u­la­tion, I waited two days to start. So there. Here’s the open­ing of the first chap­ter. You know about Occam’s Razor, right? The law that posits that the sim­plest solu­tion to a prob­lem is usu­ally …

Check my writ­ers group? No news. Check my email? No news. Check my friends’ blogs? No news. Check the Blue Board? No news that I haven’t read. Check Fire­bran­ders? No news. Arrrgh! If some­thing doesn’t hap­pen soon, I’m going to do some­thing drastic–like start a new novel.