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Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Bards of Swansea
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Mumbles
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Good, the Gander and Sex Toys
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Bad H.R.
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: So Easy …
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Expected and Unexpected Things
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Trigger Warning
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Amen
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Of Wales, Dragons and Whales
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Becoming Texan
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Earth Day 2019
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Paradise
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Nôtre Dame
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Surprise
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cause and Effect
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Where the Party’s at
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Aurora’s Rising
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Imagine Forgetting
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Do Dreams Mean Anything?
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Time and Life’s Narrative
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Studying Palimpsests Naked
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Simone, the French-speaking Cat
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On Second Thought
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Turbulence
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Love is the Reason
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Self-Detoxification
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The First Influencer
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Fairy Therapy and Other Silly Things
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Tears
2018 Residual Welshman Blogs
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Be It Resolved
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Remembering
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Visiting Ukraine
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Thanksgiving and Other Arbitrariness
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Exploding Wedding Dresses
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: What a Dog’s Bark Means
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Miracles and Blessings
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Mahler Maul
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A World without Kids
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Things You Hear at Conferences
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Kool-Aid and Other Beverages
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Foundations
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Speaking Redemption
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Nut Cracker, Sweet
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Satire, Cats, Ghosts, and a Hiatus
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The “New” Morality
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Dedicated Teacher
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Food
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Why Old People Like Strange Things
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Irrational Fears
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Safety First?
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: “Life without Art” or “The Good Stuff”
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Dreams
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: You Kiddin’ Me?
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Say Something Funny
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Fact vs. Opinion: How not to Get Your Burger
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The (In)curable Romantic
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Three and a Half Cocktail Party Topics
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Worlds Best Naked Exercise Program
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Weight of History
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Daily Bread
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Lock Seven
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: You’ve Made Your Bed
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Amusing Encounters
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Borders
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Reading for Friends (or, “How to Get Smarter”)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Problem with Great Danes
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The “New” S-Word
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Primary and Secondary Motives
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Chicago Statement
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Interest in the Boring
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Coincidence and Morality
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Name Rings a Bell
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: How to Build a Library
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: How to Determine God’s Will
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Op Eds, New Year’s Resolutions and the Past
2017 Residual Welshman Blogs
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Christmas and Baseball
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Wishing You a Good and Awkward Christmas
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Nervous Traveler
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Bubbles and St. Augustine
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A Taxi in Italy
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Living in Wonderland
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A Taxi in Italy
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Instant Theology
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Lasagna and Human Beings
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Struck While Jogging? No, But After
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Ghosts (and Underwear) in Bucks County
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Is Shakespeare Dead?
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: “The Sword over my head”
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Life in the Old Country
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Illiberal Education, Shakespeare, and Campus Rape
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cake
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Wealth and Hurricanes
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: History
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Dragon in the Sky
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Who Made Manna?
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Until I Had a Balcony
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Miners of Shaft 17
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Taking Chances
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A Piazza in Rome
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Rod Dreher, in Norcia
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Brave, Brave, Brave
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Nursery Rhymes, Aesop and the Little Red Hen
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Home
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Argument from Silence
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Remember to Smile
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Mother of All …
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Dancing in Heaven
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: ’Tis Hard Not to Write Satire
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Good, the Great and the HBR
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Poetic Art
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Making Out on Cape Cod with Skunks
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Bacon and Canada Goose
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On Unprovable Things
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cut to the Core
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Multi-culti Irish
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Shadows of Suffering
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Confusion about Race
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Difficult Road
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Unlikely Friendships
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On the Age-old Esoteric Question of Ellipsis vs. Aposiopesis
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Books and Travel
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Calexit and Fat Shaming
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Air
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Unlikely Things
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Faces
2016 Residual Welshman Blogs
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On the Passing of 2016
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Merry Christmas!
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The World’s Ugliest Christmas Tree
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Three C’s plus one for the Holidays
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Sidewalk Liturgy of a Different Kind
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Blog I Was Going to Write
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On Reading Boring Stuff
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The French Underground
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Shirt
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: How to Vote in 2016
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Rhythm
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Chance Encounter and the Pane of Glass
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Amazing Things about Birds
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Big O
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Something about September
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cats
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: History, Breakfast and Bill Glass
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Plato, Pig Socks and Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Camping for Old People
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Handshake
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: True North and the Moral Compass
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: “Just Sayin’ “
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Coming Home
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Italian Toothpaste
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Suggestive Weirdness
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: While the World Has Its Way
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Kingston upon Hull and Est! Est!! Est!!!
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Lo Sciopero (The Train Strike)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Dining Out in a World Gone Mad
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Consider the Parrot
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Love and Romance
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Pocahontas, Turtles, and Justice
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Empowerment
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Stuff You Don’t Want to Do …
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Glimpses of Heaven
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Suicide
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Richest Man Alive
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: On Toilets (and Other Things That Seem Funny)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Friends
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Opossum Logic & Safe Spaces
Commonplace Thoughts on a Residual Welshman: Via Dolorosa—Thoughts on Poverty & Sacrifice
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Persius and the Apollo Room
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Donkeys, Snakes and Other Talking Animals
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Thoughts about Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Greek-like Grackles, Clairvoyant Orangutans and Other Paradoxes
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Being There
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: St. Valentine’s Day and True Love
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Welsh Poets, Russian Icons, and Other Points of Confusion
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Colors
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Reminiscing about New Hope & Adding Letters to a Name
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cartoonish World
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Trees and People
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Happy New Year: Weddings and Funerals
2015 Residual Welshman Blogs
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Day after Anything
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Christmas Yard (Part 3: A Christmastime Judgment)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Christmas Yard (part 2, The Christmas Spirit)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Christmas Yard (Part 1, The Gift)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Thoughts on “Thank You” and Related Natterings
Commonplace Thoughts of Residual Welshman: Thanksgiving Day as Memory Day (and a Tender Turkey Recipe)
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A Prayer for Paris
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Mars and French Food
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Halloween, Soul Cakes, and Parody
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Human Trafficking vs. Human Homing Ping
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Canon and the Cheesecake
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman, “Recipes for Life”: Paradise
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Cats, Dogs, and People
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Lost Art of …
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Meaning of Life
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Angelification
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Meat and Greet
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Treasure Box
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Time
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Serendipity
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Unexpected Surprises and il Commune
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The View from Here
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Miracles
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Spark
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Traveling
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Fairy Wall and Parmesan
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Workshops and Sanctuaries
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: A Space for Hope
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Angels and Headstones
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Ghost of Sulmona
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Blaunch Reception
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Let’s Do Launch
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: The Ghost of New Hope
Commonplace Thoughts of a Residual Welshman: Artists and Poets in New Hope (and Asbury Park)
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