Ugh. I wish I could write something enjoyable about this. My hosting company, Bloghosts, which has served me well for almost a year, is shutting down in January.

That means I have to move lots of files and databases to a new server. So posting may be light for a few days while I get everything [...]

Remember that middle-school geography question about how many colors it takes to fill in a map of the United States so that no state borders another of the same color?

My question is, how many colors does it take to fill in the map so that each state borders only others of the same color?

One would [...]

I love when headlines aren’t quite sure of themselves:

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Sadly, I can’t muster the concentration required for a cogent post this evening. I could set the alarm an hour earlier for tomorrow, but unless I stumble upon some really interesting election coverage, let’s face it, you’re not going to be interested.

Besides the election (which happily seems to be floating along quite non-violently), nothing I [...]

Today’s the big day. The presidential election. It warms my heart to think of the millions of other people writing about it at this very moment. People from all across the country; all across the globe. Maybe in the distant future we will be neighbors on the pages of a history book.

My real-life neighbors have [...]

My mom never handed out Halloween candy. It was against her principles. Or something. Not a religious thing; she just hated Halloween. She hated everything about it; the dressing up, the skulls, the witches.

In her mind, Halloween was a celebration of evil and death (and of evil death). It was not something she’d grown up [...]