c. 2019 Ricka McNaughton. 

Photo: "Angelfire" by Ricka McNaughton 

                              ​GENERAL GUIDE TO WEBSITE CONTENT

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PUBLISHED ARTICLES contains links to samples of my professional short-feature writing. It's a little parking lot for some of my past work where you can peruse articles according to subject matter.    

BLOG, BARELY features stories I write occasionally just for this site. When I lapse into a creative torpor, I find doing a post here reinvigorating.       

Hop to the BLURBOSPHERE to see what I'm liking of late. I don't mean the social media sense of "like" as when a person snaps a selfie in the aisle of a supermarket, in which she is holding up what she plans to have for lunch, and you click "Like" and post back: "Wow. Cheetos. Good choice." On my Blurbosphere I post substantive bits about people I've come in contact with whose creative work, interesting deeds or moments of brilliance are my pleasure to share.   

What's the deal with the site name "The Insufficient Skeptic"?  
It just came to me, like a faux-hip, inscrutable garage band name. Had I consciously worked that vein I could have named the site InfluenzerShots or Gangsta Inksta.  ​I do believe that over time, the habit of rigorously-exercised journalistic skepticism can predispose you to see things in a narrower way. Sometimes it's better to suspend skepticism and thereby increase your chances of glimpsing the unexpected and the underappreciated.          

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