Originally posted on FRAN WILDE:
Hey you guys. I don’t know that it will ever be easy for me to publish a ‘for-your-consideration’ post. This year, hitting send feels like hitting an oyster shell through a fog, from a moving boat, with a peashooter. I’ve been writing this post for days and days. And yet.…
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A Linguistic Conundrum for the Season
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
If you celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional roast turkey, do you serve it with dressing, or with stuffing? Butterball (the turkey people, the same ones who run the feast-saving turkey hotline every year) have a page devoted to that very question.? Turns out, as I suspected, that dressing…
The Work That Binds Us Together
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
This is, of course, National Novel Writing Month – which really ought to be called International Novel Writing Month, as the map on its web page shows. In a month that’s been full of bad news from all over, and much unhappiness and partisan animosity, I find looking…
When Winter Hits the North Country, It Hits Hard
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Or, what our driveway looked like yesterday morning: And it snowed some more, after that.? And it’s snowing now. In weather like this, there really isn’t much to do except stay inside at the computer and listen to the chatter of the road crews on the office scanner…
Random Thoughts for a Random Sort of Day
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Or, bits of loose mental fluff that were never enough to make a whole post by themselves: The thing about obsolete tools for critical argument is that nobody ever bothers to box them up and put them away after acquiring a shiny new set. Instead, they’re left lying…
JAMES D. MACDONALD 