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Welcome to the new, improved edwardwillett.com!

For a long, long time I’ve wanted to consolidate the bulk of my web activities under my main domain name, edwardwillett.com. After experimentation and thought, I finally decided WordPress was the logical way to go…and that I needed professional help. (No wise cracks, please!) At just about the time I came to that conclusion, Justine …

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I’m Number Six!*

It’s not exactly earth-shattering, but I was still tickled today to discover (thanks to an automated Google ego-search) that my main website, edwardwillett.com, is ranked sixth by Alexa in Arts>Literature>World Literature>Canadian>Authors. I’m just behind playwright Norm Foster (whom I got to see performing in one of his own plays in Kincardine, Ontario, the summer before …

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I’ve put another short story online!

It’s “The Wind,” which appeared in Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction, Issue 11, which, according to their website, was the final print edition of the magazine. In other words, I killed it! I hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me… You can read “The Wind” here. (The background art for the image …

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I get quoted by CBS Sports

Well, CBSSports.com, anyway. From an article called “How to improve your ball-striking ability“: In talking technology, it’s always interesting to take a brief look back at the evolution in equipment making. As author Edward Willett explains: “When golf started out, and for centuries after, golf clubs were all made of wood. At a fairly leisurely …

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I get quoted by CBS Sports

Well, CBSSports.com, anyway. From an article called “How to improve your ball-striking ability“: In talking technology, it’s always interesting to take a brief look back at the evolution in equipment making. As author Edward Willett explains: “When golf started out, and for centuries after, golf clubs were all made of wood. At a fairly leisurely …

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Top search words bringing people to my site

I haven’t done this for a while, but here are the top search terms currently bringing people to my main site, with links to what these terms find you at edwardwillett.com. As you can see, our old friends the spider goats continue to be high on the list. time perceptionanimal emotionsgolf technologyanimal intelligenceplant communicationspider goatscobalt …

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Return of the popular search list: spider goats still rule!

I haven’t done this for a while: here are the top 15 searches among the last 4,000 visitors to edwardwillett.com, with links to the pages on my site they have led people to…and, yes, even though it’s been weeks since I posted such a list, spider goats continue to rule the roost! spider goatsspider goattime …

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The ten most popular entry pages…

…to my main website, edwardwillett.com, are currently: https://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/animalemotions.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/footballphysics.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/soccer.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/spidergoats.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/shoobird.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/skunks.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/pimples.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/golftech.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/uselessbodyparts.htmhttps://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/driving.htm Just thought you’d want to know.

"The Spider-Goat Clones of Montreal," revisited

Every day or two I check the SiteMeter stats for edwardwillett.com, and today I noticed my visits were around 200 higher than I would expect (I usually get 350 to 450 visitors each day, but today I’m up over 600). A check revealed that the extra traffic is coming from people searching for “spider goat” …

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Odd search terms and how they found me

Usually I post a list of the top search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. This week I thought I’d post some of the strangest search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. You sometimes have to wonder what the searchers were really looking for. I’ve left the original search linked to the term. “most famous cows” – …

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Hamoukar heads the list…

…of top search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com over the last week or so. I suspect that’s because this ancient city was back in the news with new archaeological finds being announced. Here are the current leaders, with links to where they take you on the site: 75 hamoukar 39 time perception 28 curling rock …

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Why we’re not going to see Sandra Shamas

In the past few years, Sandra Shamas has made a point of bringing her current work-in-progress to the Globe Theatre to workshop in front of a live audience. Shamas is an internationally acclaimed comedian, and she is, indeed, very, very funny. My wife and I had a blast the first time we went, and made …

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