Skeptophilia

In the way that viral nonsense always goes, every few months I see a resurgence of a post (actually a collection of similar posts) which tak...

I remember running into the idea of changing trends in name popularity when I saw a New Yorker  comic back in the seventies.  It showed a ty...

For many years we owned two cats, Puck and Geronimo. Imagine two soft, gentle, affectionate, fluffy kitties.  Puck and Geronimo were the exa...

This week's Fiction Friday bounces off a question I was asked recently about how I choose names for my characters.  It's an interest...

Do you think I look like a "Gordon?" According to some recent research, I might not have at birth, but I sure do now.  A stud...

Most people are, by nature, categorizers.  We like to put labels on things, sort the world into neat little boxes.  For many of us, this dri...