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If Samuel Johnson, who came to eminence as a writer and a lexicographer in the 1700s, was correct when he reportedly said, "No one but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," then I can humbly testify to being a blockhead many times over, having spent most of my own life doggedly engaged in practicing a writer's craft, but never enriching myself, a record of unabated obstinacy that stands in hellbent defiance of Dr. Johnson's bold utterance.

Expressing oneself through the written word, I have learned, is an exceedingly durable habit that, once it has solidly established itself in a person's life, with or without any manifest reward, does not easily lend itself to being broken.

Within this website is a collection of stories, sketches, essays, articles, reviews, and opinions written over a period of decades, beginning in the early 1970s and extending into the 2000s.