I've been Wistful Writer for too long. I crafted this blog in a very specific fashion, keeping in the same tone and content for quite a while now. And I feel that I've run out of things to say as WistfulWriter. The real me is far more than this dark mass of wistfulness. Frankly, I…

Desiree Jennings went to get a flu shot. Then she got dystonia from it. It's a terribly sad story. She had the courage and moxie to go on national television for interviews and show the world what the flu shot did to her.

I remember my friend Stephanie whose moved away to another state now. When she was still around here in New York City, she had this magnet on her fridge. It was one of those save the date magnets forher friend's wedding. I remember thinking it was awful nice and could be an actual souvenir of…

I've taken up sleight of hand as a hobby for a while now, though I've been out of practice for a good portion of time. I'm trying to think of a little magic routine that tells a love story. The Kingof Spades meets the Queen of Hearts. The King of Spades gets lost in the…

When searching for documents, I prefer PDFs. They're easy to distribute and practically everybody can view them for free. And there's no nasty macros either (well, at least I don't think so) whenyou use PDFs. When I'm looking for an eBook, I'll always get a PDF file over DOC files, RTF Rich Text documents, or…