CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
"Some are born Great; some achieve Greatness, and other have it pinned on them." From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
"How long is the road to Perfection? What must we go through in life to reach our goal, whatever it is? And by what means can we lose our way?" From Mystic Magazine, 1954.
We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Pittman Center, Tennessee and recalled how Joanna Rawson wrote, "I still don't know when time stops belonging to us, or us to it" (Quarry).