As a lesson in semantics, I once quizzed my advanced students at Cuba High School, decades ago, on all the […]
Month: July 2009
Don’t break the chain
First, my best friend got struck by lightning. The next day, my high-school buddy suffered a heart attack while boarding […]
I-strain, a word for inflation
Just a few weeks before my 70th birthday in April, a friend from High Rolls, N.M., sent me a booklet […]
That reminds me . . .
During the Punic Wars, my high school girlfriend and I went steady by telephone. A house full of teenagers placed […]
They leave in twos and threes
Famous people die in threes, as in Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett Majors and Michael Jackson. Important people, not necessarily famous, […]