Welcome to Benedictions and Maledictions. I want to write about words, good ones and bad ones. Not that there is a value applied to squiggly marks on a page, but once these marks hit our brainpans, pow! things happen. Good things sometimes (like a check in the mail you weren't expecting), and bad things sometimes (ever got an "F" you weren't expecting?).

I want to explore just what it is that happens between my words and your eyes.