Wit has truth in it.

I understand that it’s rather a cop-out to blog about somebody else’s blog, but I’m a vigilant reader (and long-time fan) of Garrison Keillor. I get my mid-week fix (his equally great radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, is on Saturday nights) by reading Keillor’s column, “The Old Scout.” It’s available on the APHC website […]

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Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Last night my roommate […]

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Any of you who knew me this summer, when I was preparing to jaunt off to Philadelphia and indulge in the urban experience, knew that part of my excitement in spending (at least) four months in the City of Brotherly Love was due, in a large part, to the number of concerts I knew I […]

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Okay, it sounds like the latest cell phone-email-laptop-fax-personal organizer-backscratcher combo from Apple Technologies, but I promise it’s nothing like that.
It’s actually the abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month, a world-wide event spanning the month of November. It’s also (and rather conveniently) the name of the group that organizes and publicizes the event. The NaNoWriMo […]

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