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If We Could Talk to the Animals
“Can we keep him?” “No.” “But it’s a TALKING DOG!”
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The Dog Days of Summer
An old dog, a new puppy, paralysis, and growth
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A Novel, a Wedding, and Some Heavy Petting
Plus some library- and publishing-related addenda
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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
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Language Is a Poor Heuristic For Intelligence
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood
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Ideas in Conversation with Each Other
On the long and the short of fiction writing
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Breasts of Burden
Don’t get excited, there’s no titillation here
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I’m Not Sorry
I’m just drawn that way
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Nine Lives
Nine Lives
personal essays, this time with a quarter-century more wisdom
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