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Tilting at Windmills: Spring!

Hi there! I’m a jonquil, and I want to say “Hello.” And “Hi” from me, a daffodil. I’m yellow! Yellow! Yellow! From bright red ..


Tilting at Windmills: Between Two Hard Covers

Oops. I almost squashed you. Please excuse me. I didn’t see you sitting beside me on the shelf. Only 7.7 ..


Tilting at Windmills: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

I’m not sure what modern horror made me wonder why today’s music is so depressing (maybe Kanye West selling swastika ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Stenographer and the Spymaster

Although I’ve never had a wild desire to be a 21st Century Mata Hari, I admit to a certain admiration ..


Tilting at Windmills: Love Letter to a Typewriter

Whenever I think about my favorite writers, I image them hunched over manuscripts, their brains filled with plots, characters, and ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Melinda Bittle

I don’t know if I’m writing this because I recently saw a documentary on television about parents and teachers putting ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Chicken and the Rooster – A Fable

Six hens lived in the chicken coop at the McGilvery Farm. Milly, Josephine, and Mabel occupied the nesting boxes on ..


Tilting at Windmills: Trashy Reading

A few days ago, I was strolling down Main Street when I walked past an old-fashioned barbershop. It had every ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Further Adventures of Stupidly Named Drugs

Have you ever noticed (of course you have!) that a bewildering number of medications introduced over the past few dozen ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Winter Weary

Winter weary Winter Woe I am sick of All this snow. Sniffles. Sneezes Runny nose Frigid fingers Frigid toes. Eaves and gutters Frozen ice Petrified Stalactites.  Walk with peril. Drive with dread Ice ..


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