11 28 11 Watch for Weekly Posts



I don't have time these days to post daily. Some of my last posts were not well written and needed rewrites. I just didn't have the time, either for the rewrites, or to keep up the kind of thinking that leads to substantive posts each day. So I am going to weekly posts. They won't be substantially different, but I will at least have the chance to clean them up some.

Watch for my next full post later this week!

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