Yes, I can’t help myself from adding yet another game! The answers to the clues to the homophones (words pronounced the same but spelled differently) are below:

Here is another, rather rambling, ramblings. At least it ends with some funny cartoons. (This is an updated version, including a section on Orwell’s 1984.)

Okay, here’s another homophonic game. The answers are at the end, but please don’t at them until you’ve tried to answer the clues.

Okay, here’s an alternative history story, one inspired by a wonderful National Geographic documentary about a Shetland Island man and an otter.

I can’t be the only old fart who has become bewildered by all those apps I have to carry around on my phone!

just after I upload “The First Sweat” here I realized that I had not posted this piece, which I wrote three years ago! Anyway, here it is:

In thinking about the political mess the United States is now in (1 September, 2025), I wrote this, fictional, dialogue.

As many of my readers know, I am obsessed with words, and the other day I was thinking about the word “sweat”, something that I could add to the list of words that are both nouns and verbs.  And, figuring that the noun—the water that oozes out of our skin pores—must have come before the verb, I thought to myself, “I wonder when the first sweat happened?  (A less morbid thought than wondering when was the first suicide.)  So, here is what I came up with:

So, many of you will be aware of the recent hype about Emergent Misalignment, where LLM AI’s seem to go off the rails when insecure code is introduced. Here is a little short story that I just wrote on this topic. (My story is no masterpiece, but the ChatGPT’s comments I append to it are hilarious!)