Recipro City

Recipro City

Does parity float your boat? Does turn-taking twirl your world? Does your life feel like a lucky charm or the bottom of a scum-laden bog? Does a reward of reciprocity exist? Does helping others have to make me feel shaken, forsaken, all wet? The perverse and pervasive...
Self-licensing

Self-licensing

My dietary aspirations have taken a pratfall again. It’s not my fault; it’s self-licensing. Never heard of the inherent human travail before? Here’s your definition of the Word of the Day: n. The unconscious tendency to allow yourself to do something...
Self-licensing

Affluenza

The other day I wrote about narrative arc, positing that a famous, mega-selling author eschews the literary cornerstone. His protagonist, Jack Reacher, never changes, and readers, especially women of a certain age, love him. But Jack Reacher is fiction, and Ethan...
Narrative Arc

Narrative Arc

Spoiler alert: this post is a Rambler with no Narrative Arc. Narrative Arc is not like Noah’s Ark, a Biblical tale with a narrative arc, if there ever was one. Imagine it: all of the critters of the world, cruising 2×2. My husband are going to cruise, just...
It’s All Good

It’s All Good

I am PJ Colando and this is my daily appointment to write. Be fast or you won’t see this post – it’s a blog course assignment and I purloined the media… So, this post may be toast before long. I’m an Irish lassie, believing in order, but...