The End of Feet of Clay; or Who Wrote the Better Obituary
So this is where we left off yesterday. “ Could you have paid a finer tribute to this man? What about this piece of writing, this tribute? How does this rank as an obituary? Can…
So this is where we left off yesterday. “ Could you have paid a finer tribute to this man? What about this piece of writing, this tribute? How does this rank as an obituary? Can…
I am loath to admit that I am sort of starting to get caught up in this Royal Wedding stuff, breaking down and watching a PBS program. So now I know her name: Meghan and…
So I am at Vancouver Public Library (one of my favorite places on earth) and I pick up a book Best Canadian Sports Writing. I leaf through it and I bloody well cannot believe it –…
I woke up this morning to an email from my former classmate and colleague Ted Powell. He informed me of his fame and celebrity sending an email to all classmates and the instructor. He: If…
To all of you needing vocabulary instruction emulating means: “If you emulate something or someone, you imitate them because you admire them a great deal.” Sons are traditionally expected to emulate their fathers. [VERB noun]…
Chris, my computer guru is on vacation and despite that he is loyally posting my blog – what a guy! But I decided to take it easy on him and not blog, giving him a…
What made the day amazing was sheer serendipity. Such a word, that serendipity. “Serendipity means an unplanned, fortuitous discovery.[The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend…
I have established a new pattern. As before I write the blog and then send it off to Chris in an email, then another email with the picture or video to be featured. It is…
The April 27, 20i8 blog contained statistics and there was also a graph, a helpful visual aid. It demonstrated a huge spike of visits on March 30 and 31. I finally did some investigation. Ms….
This Saturday began early, it always does, but I awoke to the sounds of birds – not those squawking sea gulls but real live birds. It is because it is spring and the guys flew…