I know. The title is a spoiler, but I want readers who aren’t baseball fanatics to have the option of closing the website until tomorrow, when I plan to write about oxymorons. And who doesn’t like a good oxymoron?

Anyway,

 … finish reading Cubs Win, Cubs Win

Yes, I know. The first thing about this word is its pronunciation. For the record, it’s – and this is my version – pair-a-prose-doke-e-an. If you look it up you see something like /paerepros’doukien/.

Second, Wikipedia tells us all about

 … finish reading Paraprosdokians

I rarely post book reviews, but the selection for last night’s Great Book Club (aka The Buddy Book Club) deserves comment. Written by Celeste Ng (pronounced Eng), Our Missing Hearts is her third novel. It was reviewed by Stephen King

 … finish reading Our Missing Hearts

The dog-eared paperback caught my eye.  It lay on the shelf at shoulder height, so that I couldn’t miss it, as I searched for something else on my jam-packed bookcase.  Seeing her book, Writing Down the Bones, made me realize

 … finish reading Writer’s Block (Originally Published in 2001)

I’m the executive in this headline, and I’m making a decision..

I’ve blogged on and off – but mostly on – since 2004. Back then, my goal was to write every day as a way of keeping my skills

 … finish reading Executive Decision