If you scroll down, you might notice I made substantial changes to the piece I added earlier in the week about election day. I’d originally taken a lighter approach than what you see below, but I felt the tone was off for the significance of the moment.

That’s just one example of the pieces I’ve gone back and modified. If there’s a piece that you enjoyed here, you might take a look back and see if it’s intact. Hopefully, you’ll find it much improved and in better shape now than the earlier draft that appeared online.

Sometimes I draw ideas and actual words for projects I am developing directly from these entries. Any time I use excerpts from this blog in actual articles, I delete the copy from this site. Those are the only occasions in which these posts might not be “bettered” in the traditional sense.

Read on and come back often.

I used to loathe Sunday afternoons especially in winter, because they were the days I’d swaddle myself in blankets and sit at the computer writing magazine stories. To the sound of teeth chattering, I’d force myself my frozen fingers to type louder than my chattering teeth and abandon stories before they were conplete for the warmth of my wife and our electric blanket.

We are a napping family, so to write on the weekend is already a great loss. Rain makes the commitment harder. Professional or even college football is another major test. But the biggest deterrent to write – the cold – has finally been solved by this handheld device.

This winter, I will lay in bed under electric blankets cranked up full blast while I assume the duties of weekend bard. There will be no more forced creativity, no incomplete articles of frost-bitten limbs. I owe it all to this wireless creation. Of course, I no longer have the satisfaction of self didcipline but who needs it when the words can be more beautiful and my feet can be warm, too?