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brilliant quote
I'm reading my/Robert Parker's final novel, 'Blue Eyed Devil'.
""Most people know what they should do, most of the time," I said. " 'Specially if they ain't married."" -
Graduation
Neil (Jouer Avec Morte) and Lillian (Adelaide) are graduating this year, Neil on Sunday and Lillian in June. Pride. -
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A young friend Jamie Sherry is a fantasy fiction reporter for Examiner.com and posted this. Apparently the hyperlink for online reading is problematic?
Witch & Wizard from Patterson and Charbonnet
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St. John's College, Annapolis
St. John's is a college a half-century (or more) after its time. It was re-imagined in 1937 and remains a learning environment driven by dialectic in the classroom based on the Great Books. All the students study the same materials during their four-year journey, and if you transfer with credits from another college, you still begin at the ( Read more... ) -
School's going to hell
Missed the school board meeting (again). My pick for candidate didn't survive the primary. And anyway, presented with a fait accompli such as an "online coordinator" instead of a new language teacher, what use? -
Hunting the elusive French 3
Daughter's paperwork arrives from High School. But alas, her class schedule for Junior year lacks French 3. I question the school only to find that the class is not offered at all, because "there might not have been enough students, or the 'language department' might have decided that they needed more beginners' classes"; ha! Lillian loves ( Read more... ) -
Love me, love you
From a discussion of altruism elsewhere ( Read more... ) -
Dictionary fun
A red-letter Webster's Collegiate II day today! What lovely discoveries ( Read more... )
