Bonnie Furlong is a writer of funny essays, most of which are published in her family newsletter, lately on hiatus because she is pursuing a career in desktop publishing, graphic arts, and technical writing at her local community college, where she is called a “mature student.” Yes, it rankles. She will not be able to graduate until she completes English 212, which she is boycotting because she will have to write a research paper with footnotes and a bibliography. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with three cats and a dawg. Oh, and she deplores plagiarism in all of its forms and has been following reports of it in the news with fascination and horror.