<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Scrivener Blog]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dogsbody Blog]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/the-review</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:18:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.dogsbody.blog/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Story: THE ESCAPE FROM                       TYPHOID MEADOWS.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yeah, Typhoid Meadows. How the hell did I wind up there? I think it was the result of my perennial habit of dealing inefficiently with conflict; which is a fancy way of describing cowardice. Before the Meadows I had an idyllic RV site which backed on to a quiet area on a not very busy golf course. Then I helped out a no-hoper who had no transport to go and buy cigarettes. Then the no-hoper turned into a moocher and I had to say no and that caused a kind of quiet resentment. He was in a...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/story-the-escape-from-typhoid-meadows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">676f987736d9bd82065cdeb3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_2671f803d0184be8bfeb4a401d727309~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_669,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story: THE NAMING OF VEHICLES, Part 1 (of 3)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone else has always been better at naming vehicles than I am; and naming pets, and naming children.  When I come up with a name, it always sounds clichéd, lame, or derivative. I had an English teacher who named his cat Astrophe.  My father called all his vehicles Matilda, after the Australian folksong "Waltzing Matilda".  Matilda has a burbling mechanical steam whistle sound, and the Waltzing motif adds an itinerant kinetic element.  At one point my father bought a Peugeot 403.  He named...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/story-the-naming-of-vehicles-part-1-of-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63e48b358cc995bf7ca29748</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_f5ff6f971f784b9581299586b9867401~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story: THE NAMING OF VEHICLES, Part 2 (of 3)]]></title><description><![CDATA[We turned north on Interstate 84 and drove past the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake.  I spent the night in Boise, Idaho.  It was clean and there were healthy looking high school kids in the IHOP.  No nasty surprises there. Pendleton Oregon looked like it had thrown in the towel; as if it had looked around, held up its hands in surrender, and said: "What the hell is the point?" Everything seemed damp and tired and unemployed. But it's probably unfair to judge places on a single impression....]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/story-the-naming-of-vehicles-part-2-of-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63f6b45a63b97268fb2f896b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_92b55b078faf45fa9c8f890b4ca1f78a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story: THE NAMING OF VEHICLES, Part 3 (of 3)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the RV park north of Mobile Alabama my trailer turned into little more than an office.  Once you got the PC and the printer set up on the dining table you could not easily convert the dining suite into the queen size bed it was designed to become. So I slept over at my girlfriend's place.  It was more spacious, and it had partitions between the living spaces. "Midge says she likes you okay," Caroline said.  Midge was her daughter. "That's good," I said.  "She's kind of quiet; it's hard to...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/story-the-naming-of-vehicles-part-3-of-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64a4d41616aebdfd1c57621a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_be3cb8b73c86470caee8a97875e15089~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feature: DENTAL TREATMENT IN MEXICO.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Considering that the dental surgery is in another country, it takes only a short time to get there.  The journey time is about an hour door to door, but I always allow ninety minutes for the sake of punctuality.  This journey time includes leaving my car on this side of the border and walking into Mexico. The reason I walk into Mexico is that Mexican vehicle insurance costs $40 per day.  You can bet that if I drove in there uninsured I would be involved in an accident and get into some very...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/feature-dental-treatment-in-mexico</link><guid isPermaLink="false">643a5018951bf2a7276fd061</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_efee9f20c9fc46408ea336a477cf7cb3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_612,h_408,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recipes: TWO VEGETARIAN RECIPES FOR PHILISTINES.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I learned recently that my LDL cholesterol level was high, I decided to implement a vegetarian diet for myself. I had been deterred in the past by the prospect of having to design and concoct those savory black bean cobblers that precious girls in long flowered skirts serve up in pyrex oven dishes in communes. I was reassured by the frozen vegan offerings now on display in supermarkets, by the Beyond Burgers offered by Carl’s Jr., and by the vegan curry on the menu at Thuy’s Vietnamese...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/recipe-two-vegetarian-recipes-for-philistines</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65261d3c751d45157096ad3c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:10:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_455631f5bf084c9f9a8748be18c17ba5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion: DONALD TRUMP'S SUPPORT DEMOGRAPHICS; THE HAVES AND THE SILLY HAT BRIGADE.]]></title><description><![CDATA[(First published April 2024). Donald Trump’s political support seems to derive from two quite separate and differentiated sources. The first source is comprised of wealthy cynics. These are people whose only common interests with Trump are that taxes be kept low and that labor be kept cheap. These people are bright enough to know that they are a minority of the electorate. (Remember: 84% of the stock market is owned by the richest 10% of the population). That wealthiest 10% is generally not...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/opinion-donald-trump-s-support-demographics-the-haves-and-the-silly-hat-brigade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6697518300baaf871555a6aa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_58d844a4cb54450baaf76f73ebbab96a~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_500,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion: A LOST ARGUMENT REVISITED.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The service is slow at the Grand Café.  The food is good but it takes a long time to arrive.  It’s not their fault; the local economy is slow, and if they employed more waiters, the revenue would not support their wages.  Better a Grand Café where the service is slow than no Grand Café at all. It doesn’t matter much anyway.  We’re all retired and the delay gives us time to talk. But a couple of weeks ago the conversation got more serious than was good for anybody. At the previous Sunday’s...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/opinion-a-lost-argument-revisited</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64c3608574f895943fe46174</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:02:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_eb214c6f44ec446384efdc7fb4fb4198~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feature: BERGEN-BELSEN, MY ENGLISH TEACHER, AND DONALD TRUMP.]]></title><description><![CDATA[(First published August 2024). I’m having trouble remembering whether it was 1962 or 1963, but I think it was probably 1962. The events in Germany in the year I’m talking about feel more like they happened to my fourteen year old self than to my fifteen year old self. So in 1962 {probably) the Third Royal Tank Regiment invited a portion of my boarding school’s cadet force to their depot near the city of Hanover, in Germany. (The German spelling of the city’s name was Hannover). For about two...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/feature-bergen-belsen-my-english-teacher-and-donald-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65c2abfd102a7b123c31b163</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:50:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_44a4de1ce3c040e0a46b332c54786651~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion: THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION.]]></title><description><![CDATA[(First published March 2023). The attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was disturbing for many reasons, but for me, principally for two. It had an uncomfortable similarity to the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany, in 1923, and to the affair of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin ten years later.  Both these incidents were designed to replace democracy in Germany with totalitarian Nazi rule.  In the case of the Reichstag Fire, the attempt was successful. The Beer Hall Putsch: in 1923,...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/opinion-the-january-6-insurrection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">641a37d525176bbd8b870fc9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:05:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_5a4725197c6a4ff588dad4384e4c80f8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story: CINDERELLA IS DYING.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Down in the smart part of Florida in May. The restaurant was very much that kind of place.  Yeah, you’ll tell me, how am I supposed to know what that means?  Well, it was a garish place.  Everything about it was strident.  The vulgarity and extravagance screamed at you from the moment you got in the door. Dietrich and I didn’t fit their demographic for the perfect customer group  The perfect customer group was a mixed gender pair of optimistic young himbo / bimbos stepping out of a black BMW...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/grow-your-blog-community</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63c9dd7cab81e0be32f8f25b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_c361183a96194bd892fa0f1baaa48725~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_978,h_629,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse: GETTING OLD.]]></title><description><![CDATA[GETTING OLD  Everyone is alive And as energetic as a spring chicken Until they’re not Because they’re dead Everyone is walking and doing Yoga for the Rest of Us And talking about diet and exercise Until they’re not And then the silence is deafening Everyone turns up in movies Looking white-haired and sunburned Until you check imdb.com and learn That they’ve been gone for anything up to ten years And then they’re just a footnote Everyone is still alive And looking marvelous for their age Until...]]></description><link>https://www.dogsbody.blog/post/design-a-beautiful-blog</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63c9dd7cab81e0be32f8f25a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a76703_2e7729f24d4f4b3abeac647cc9baf5d9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bill Wordsworth</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>