JD Thompson

cats, Advent candles, fireworks, Kwanzaa candles, Solstice candles, Hanukkah candles, statue of the Buddha under bright sin and a flashlight, representing holidays in December
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Happy Whatever You’re Having

Welcome to that particularly insane American tradition of the holidays, this year following close on another insane American tradition called the general election.  I don’t

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Back to school images: pencils (by Kelli Tungay on Unsplash), rosary (by Madeleine Dimond), quetzalcoatl serpent god (by Narayan Mukti from Pixabay), school books (by Clarissa Watson on Unsplash), Asian boy studying in restaurant (hoto by buian_photos on Unsplash)
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Back to School

What do you say at the beginning of the school year? Good luck? Deepest sympathies? May the Lord have mercy on your soul?

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I’m Famous!

JD here, with a special announcement: Anastasia Pollack, star of Lois Winston’s Killer Crafts and Crafty Killers series, is interviewing me on December 27 at

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