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  • Isocrates said that the right word is a sure sign of good thinking. I'll take that as one further encouragement to investigate the histories of words. A little bouquet of words I've come across lately (forgive the appar…

  • Chocolate chip cookies are still the best.

  • It started out as a conversation about Middle English and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. And unaccountably, within five minutes, it had degenerated into me teaching Jeanna Pig Latin. We named all her Pooh …

  • Oops! I broke one of my blogging rules and let more than a week go by between posts. Lastnight, in a valiant effort to learn more about the King of the Instruments, Lizzie, Charity, and I went to an organ concert. Since …

  • A leftover reflection or two from Independence Day . . .Statesmanship, I've heard people observe, is a lost art. I wonder, is citizenship is another lost art? Once upon a time education was directed towards producing goo…

  • Evan, who is an explorer at heart, persuaded Kimberly, Jeanna, and me to accompany him to Fort Pierce on Thursday afternoon. I was initially inclined to curl up and read at the cottage, but in the end, I was glad I went.…

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