The Clerk Manifesto

Hey, you on the far right, Come on over to our side on the far left! It's almost exactly like where you are now except facts, sc...

It was Monday morning after a lovely extended holiday weekend. I was walking across the Mississippi River to get a bike to take to wor...

I was just sitting here writing a super boring blog post when I suddenly thought "Hey, you don't have to write this super b...

Among the many magnificent tableaus of the Ocean's movies there is a typically brilliant one in which Basher, the team's dem...

In my wanderings across American Culture I have occasionally come upon people siting a condition called "Trump Derangement Synd...

A total stranger came up to me yesterday and asked "Do you have sweet dreams?" What kind of question is that? It's...

Imagine if you will a box. Every time you open the door of it something different is inside. Open it one time and there is a crumpl...

I am upstairs once again shelving 65 books (an average cart load). There are four relatively easy levels to shelve on, and there is on...

Over the past five or so years I have seen a lot of soccer games. And in almost every one of them a team has lost. Even in the occas...

How can you tell it's Summer in the library? By the smell. In the warm weather all the human fats, pressed millimeter by millim...

At sunset everything turns pink; the city, the string of clouds running unevenly over the horizon, and the river itself. The brown Mis...

I'm not usually a fan of the soccer announcers. Mostly I get English people who pretend to be calm and neutral but aren't real...

I watched the Democratic debates. And because the odds are that you didn't, a choice I can't much fault, I am here to tell you...

I know, dear readers, that while I have been home in my convalescence I have written a lot of posts about soccer. A lot of soccer. ...

Home tending to my mysterious ailment which I wish I'd stop mentioning, I am watching plenty of Women's World Cup soccer. So ...

Today I was home sick, with an ailment that I.. don't... really... want... to.... discuss. So I watched the day's Women'...

Why am I watching so much of The Women's World Cup? It's a multiple choice question! A. Because it's the beautiful game!...

Dear Publisher: I have prepared a list for you of reasons why you should publish my book. You could read my manuscript and decid...

One of my co-workers was telling me the status of her preparations for her upcoming trip to France. There were some pending issues abo...

Dear Literary Agent: I read somewhere, maybe it was in Writer's Digest , or Publisher's Weekly , or The 2019 Writer's...