Saucy greetings from Calaveras County, CA.   We’re back from the hills and staring at taxing tax forms.  Much is afoot in the world at large and small, per usual.  For the moment I have only this picture to offer as a little place holding post card.   Blog Reader

 This is a brief editorial note informing you of the existence elsewhere of a post of mine on religion and kids, The Magic of Story, at BlogHer.  Please mosey over there and give it a looksee, comment even if you like.  I hope to be able to chat back to

Buckling to the popular demand of two (count ’em: 2!) readers, I’m posting the notes I used in my talk on campus yesterday about why and how I write. I extemporized a lot, so some of what’s below didn’t get across. Plus more slipped in.  But this is the jist.