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Conversations in My Jammies

Until four months ago, I didn’t know that "blog" was a word. At first I thought it was “bog” or “bug” spoken with a drunken lisp. Come to find out, I am not alone. The folks at Merriam-Webster are naming the word BLOG as the #1 word of the year 2004.

Wasting a Perfectly Good Cigarette

“I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.” –Ayn Rand  Atlas Shrugged