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This Bear’s Repeating
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. (Bill Spencer is author of Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally […]
The First Thanksgiving Was … Healthy?
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
Bring Back Dangerous Halloweens
Unless you’re one of those people of questionable sanity who likes cold weather, October had little to offer Hoosiers except autumn colors and Halloween. By the end of the month the leaves have started to […]
Happy July 2nd, America!
John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Second U.S. President, and all around unpleasant guy, had this to say about America’s Independence Day: “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, […]
Tis the Season … for 911
I don’t know if anyone who’s not in the emergency services will fully appreciate this, but what the heck. I wrote some new lyrics to the Christmas song “Deck the Halls”, and it’s dedicated to […]
Christmas and the Y-Chromosome
It’s the time of year when we work that “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men” stuff pretty hard. A nice gesture, perhaps, but I really don’t think we can achieve that first goal so long […]
Surviving Christmas Dinner with Relatives
The weather is getting colder. The hours of daylight are rapidly waning. And Costco has inflatable eight-foot Snow Globes on sale (although in full disclosure, these went on sale in early September). The holiday season […]
Christmas In Hawaii (To The Tune Of “White Christmas”)
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas But not the kind you’re thinking of I want white, sandy beaches and Blue, blue water and gorgeous hula Dancers in my sights I’m dreaming of a White Christmas […]
It’s time to begin the HO HO HOPress-Shorehouse Books Holiday Reading List
We at HOPress-Shorehouse Books are so proud of all our authors. They had a dream, and they accomplished their dream of being published authors — some for the first time. To honor them this holiday […]