Gypsy Scholar

The Bottomless Bottle of Beer! JUST RELEASED!!! NOW ON SALE!!! On behalf of International Authors I am happy to announce the publication of ...

The newly redacted, and now richly illustrated novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, has finally arrived. The author, Jeffery Hodges, has ...

I have recently published a book of poems, specifically, limericks. The book is titled Extra Pound: The Limericks . You might not have heard...

 An English professor writing an hour-long comment on Hi Ren offers helpful insights on the various personalities that pop up to critique ea...

https://renmakesmusic.lnk.to/hiren The musician Ren talks about his song: Creating this song wasn't easy, but I'm so proud of how i...

Carter Kaplan has recently reworked and republished his sci-fi trilogy, The Invisible Tower, which fans of sci-fi and of Kaplan should great...

"In the glare of noise, heat, dust, and confusion," Gornick tells us . . . but can she?

One will recall that Vitasta Raina designed the book cover and that International Authors published the book in Brookline, Massachusetts thr...

Caught in a moment of intrepid sitting, the tripper (Vitasta Raina) ponders her next move, while I (Gypsy Scholar, aka Horace Jeffery Hodges...

Ever read those "Today in History" columns that purport to tell us what happened TODAY in HISTORY? They don't.

Sportswriter Jim Bulley informs us: "Hwang Hee-chan goes 22 games without a goal!" Bulley then helpfully adds: "The Bull"...

 Is a yawning gap always also a bored gap, or can it also sometimes be a tired gap? 

 My blog got spammed, and the price for getting it despammed was the loss of several blog entries. Sorry about that. Horace Jeffery Hodges *...

 Brother James would say that, but he never had to pay the price demanded by incensed deity. Horace Jeffery Hodges * * *

An anti-hunger scam stole 240 million dollars from the US government "by billing the government for meals they did not serve to childre...

 I wrote this religious poem about a month ago. No One Feels Death No one feels death, but Jesus, who reckons my every stroke, the forty min...

Father: It's dangerous to be famous. Son: Why? Father: Famous people die more frequently. Son: What! Father: It's true! Every day, I...

My True Ancestry sent me an email with emphasis upon the following: "Upload Your Raw DNA Data." I hadn't been planning on uplo...

I read an interesting statistic in the "Korea Herald" for Monday June 27th (2022): "Majority of Americans hold Trump culpable...

About a week ago, I fell out of bed. I don't know I did it, but the feat must have been a magnificent acrobatic one, for I met the floor...

What do you call the actions of the male offspring of a forest, given that the offspring have betrayed the forest through those actions? Jef...

In his new book on teaching, Kevin Kim draws attention to me and my influence, and he thanks me for my insights into homeschooling. In priva...

The writer Ezra Klein offers an essay  on Christianity in the NYT International  on April 3rd, 2022: "Christianity . . . is a religion ...

to do what Mack Hassler and Cara Gilgenbach did : Emanations for Special Collections.

"I think, therefore I am," quod he to me. Said I, "But what happens if your mind goes blank? And quoting others takes no thou...

Scott Herschovitz wrote in a recent NYT issue (May 3, 2022) of an interesting question posed by his four-year-old son: "Is God real?&q...

The NYT International Edition recently (April 13, 2022) ran a somewhat garbled piece (cf. paragraph eight) on Ludwig Wittgenstein, who expe...

The verb bāḏal (בָּדַל, pronunciation, baw-dal') occurs in both (baw-dal') Genesis 1:4 and Leviticus 10:10. Genesis 1:4. And God saw...

If you have been expecting a reply to an email that you recently sent to me, your email may have gone missing in a virus-induced loss of ema...

I nodded off while trying to type something: D3qw Th What in the world was I thinking?

Who said this? Old age is when we find out what happened to us when we were young. Does this accord with the experience of you, my older rea...

The verb  bāḏal  ( בָּדַל , pronunciation ,  baw-dal') occurs in both  Genesis 1:4 and Leviticus 10:10.  Genesis 1:4. And God saw the li...