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Today I begin a new series, called "Meet My Friend..." (Don't worry--the next installment of "The Hunt" will be back on Monday) In this series, my goal is to introduce each of you to

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I'm quite sure the picture atop this sentence gives away my point today. If you came looking for the next installment of my short story, The Hunt -- never fear, I will be posting it in a few hours. As

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Before I get started, I will address the picture I used for this post. Quite frankly, the picture has nothing to do with anything except one of my daughters loves mermaids so I thought I would use a mermaid

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Perhaps you came to read my blog today hoping for a bit of fiction or even an enjoyable tale about my real life. Right up front, I am going to apologize--today I am addressing what I feel is an epidemic.

Algis Budrys That is not me. It is one of my heroes in life. It is, as you can see from the small caption below the picture, Algis Budrys. I have exactly four and a half heroes. Algis Budrys is one of

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