shadow side: (n.) self you encounter when you do not look in the mirror.

fetish: (n.) anything, such as the stock market, falsely believed by primitive peoples to possess divine, magical or supernatural qualities.

Dowist: (n.) blind believer in the stock market.

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

In my experience women can balloon for no reason at all.

I detest goodbyes. That is, with people I like.

antidepressant: (n.) any of various energetic techniques for warding off parasitic friends, colleagues, and family members.