Not since I was 14 years old, I have been enthralled by languages.
I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.
They catch us unprepared.
Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.
I have always considered it a strength, not a weakness, to consult with people with whom we vehemently disagree.
I can’t shake the conviction that a sense of perpetual aggrievement is one of the key components of the engine driving our national estrangement.
I’m reminded of the steep price we all pay for ignorance.
Perhaps my brain injected a bit of humor to cover the shock. But I felt the gut punch.
Here are other songs I’ve heard over the years that have had this effect on me.
I have been thinking about phrases that we use without considering what they actually imply down deep, or whether they…
Like many of you, I have a wish list for the coming year.
I have always been fascinated by the titles we Americans have bestowed on our towns and cities over time.
I was 22 years old, and in my second year at the University of Washington that fateful day, one of my Classics professors, without knowing it, helped put a name to my dreaded affliction.
I was listening to the radio on the way in to work the other day when I caught a discussion…
One of the largest Veterans Day parades west of the Mississippi returns to Auburn on Saturday, Nov. 11.
Before we put the veterans back on the shelf until the next observance, I think it’s worthwhile to consider a few of the things they have done for us that we may have forgotten.
Lately I have found myself overwhelmed.
On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, four little girls were getting ready for Sunday school in the basement of…
You read about them in the papers, see them on the television and the net, hear them on the streets.
It is plain to me in looking at dogs small and large that a decent share of them are exemplars of love on Earth, innocents who love unconditionally and love their chow.
