'Damn it All' and Feeling a Little Better
Someone very dear to me was rushed to the emergency room two Sundays ago and found to be dying. My wife and I drove out to be with him...
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Words, Sounds, Images, Ideas
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." –Robert Benchley
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"I think you mean, 'May I...?'"
Bryan Garner, writing in the original preface for his massive Garner’s Modern English Usage: The Authority on Grammar, Usage, and Style...
Strong, real women come in all shapes and sizes
Growing up in a small town in West Texas, I couldn’t wait to leave home and go see the bright lights of New York, Los Angeles, and...
"Prose, energize!"
Helen Sword, professor and director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland, authored...
You are what you read, or see... or are you?
The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World by Arthur W. Hunt. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. 2003 271 pp....
Gain & Loss
Writing to his sister Jemima Mozley in 1863, John Henry Newman commented that “a man’s life lies in his letters.” To him, letters...
Tonight Show, Morning Mass...
Wynton Marsalis’s new release, “Abyssinian Mass,” is the third full-length work of a spiritual nature by the trumpeter, composer and...
Indulging my own inner critic
...And offering one explanation of just why Christians might actually like seeing bad 'Christian' movies... (against better impulses...
Artists & Other Noble Sufferers
I noticed this article this morning, and was particularly struck by the following quotation from an artist from an open letter apparently...
The quirky eclipse of Quark Xpress
And a reminder about the 'alien in the cupboard'... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/quarkxpress-the-demise-of-a-des...
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