I threw a DVD  of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” into my player last night.  I needed a touch of innocence to block out the television news.  Hard to accept but the real world had grown more fantastical, dark, and insane, than makebelieve. In the episode I selected,

If you’ve returned to this blog page more than once, congratulations.  You’re an intelligent reader.  At least, that’s what my computer’s editor says.  When I compose, I’m forever being red flagged for sentences that are too long and paragraphs that are too complex.  So