Clever: The Ezine for the Neglected Demographic

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Armchair Travel:
The Blooming Desert: The Phantom's Virtual Postcard tour Continues
Where my Friends Went: more postcards
A Road Warrior in Spain, the Phantom-in-law does Madrid

The Funny Stuff:
How to Organize your Cats (forwarded email photos)
Text message abbreviations: the short list by the Phantom
Did you know? (am I the only one still getting these emails?)
Aphorisms
Amusing poetry by Gerald Bosacker
Irish Humor (let's keep celebrating that Great Day for the Irish!)

This Issue's Featured Writing:
I Like My English Grilled, by David Calleja
My wish for the Earth, by Terri Coffman
The Maine Coon Cat, by Patricia Crandall
Urban Hiking: trend of the future? by Jessica Lawson
Cuts! by Elizabeth Rau
Maine Barns, by Tom Sheehan
Now You’re Telling Me This, by Peter Simons
A Page On Hospital Leadership, by Eliezer Van Allen, MD

Short Fiction:
Reform School, by David Breitkopf
The Avenger, a mystery by Martin Green
The Treadmill, by Jim Harrington
Last To Know, by Karen Karlitz
Mozart’s Marrow, by Michael C. Keith
If words could kill, flash fiction by Nomi Liron
It’s All Been Leading Up to This, by Maria Gabriela Pereira

Miscellaneous:
In Bed with the Phantom -- the winter round up of good and not so good books
The Clever Magazine Book Awards for 2010, by the Phantom
Movie Reviews: Hurt Locker, and many others!
Our Recipe Files are back! with some new additions

Serial Fiction
Snowbound: Day 59: the final chapter! Will Sidney and Matt finally get rescued?
Snowbound: Day 1, Here's where the story begins

With our animal friends in mind:
Window Bird Watching, by Patricia Crandall
Be kind to bears: some thoughts on bear attacks, by the Phantom

Blogs and websites we like:
Brendan's Adventures
Melody's Reading Corner
Meeta Gajjar
The Moon Bear blog: Jill needs your help!
Mini Speaks, even my cat is blogging these days

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Archives:
Art exhibits, artists and their work
Book Reports, book awards, book collecting...
Essays, the best of previous issues
Fiction, hopes, dreams, falsehoods & mysteries
Gardens are our passion
Investigations, lion statues and other extremely important research
Nature stories, saving the environment one small step at a time
Pet Pages, lots of heavy petting going on
Poetry, take your medicine, read a few, you
might like them
Travel Essays, armchair travel at its finest

Humor Archives, or look at the following:
Relationship, senior and southern humor
Pearly gates and regional humor
One-liners

The Phantom's Page: here's the editor's stuff
The Celebrity Page: whenever we feel like congratulating somebody for something special, you'll find it on this page. Check it out.

Ongoing collections:
Clever Cooks, here it is, our recipe collection
Movie Review Archive:
A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
The Clever Lists, we love lists
Clever Cooks - the recipes

Departments:
Our bookstore: bookclub reading list!
Publishing Guidelines, want to get your piece published? Read this first.
Contributors' Archive
the alpha list: A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
About Clever, maybe more than you want to know

Reader Responses, fire off an email and let us know what you think, we'll publish it here
A Message from the Editor: occasionally the editor spouts off about something
Want to Subscribe to Clever? We'll put you on our mailing list and you'll hear from us once in a while (no advertising, we promise!)
The Clever archive of past issue Cover Art.

Wanna check out the Phantom's Blog?

The theme for our next issue is...
"Pets and other wild animals", you define them.
Whatever you've got that fits the theme, we'll look at it.