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One of the Good Things About Teaching

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
— and about editing, for that matter — is the the opportunity to point with pride at a student’s (or client’s) success. On this occasion, I can bask in the reflected glow from Viable Paradise alumna Fran Wilde’s winning of the Andre Norton Award for YA science fiction…

KILKENNY CATS.

KILKENNY CATS. Tune— “Old Dan Tucker“ Calhoun, Buchanan, Johnson, Cass,The Locos say, may go to grass;And so they give us Polk and Dallas,A ticket which cannot appall us. Hurrah! for Clay and Frelinghuysen,Hurrah! for Clay and Frelinghuysen,Hurrah! for Clay and Frelinghuysen,The day’s our own, past all surmisin’. Their own true friends they would dishearten.And cliptContinue reading “KILKENNY CATS.”

Sir Walter Scott’s Aunt Meets the Suck Fairy

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Once upon a time there was a Scottish lawyer (and poet and novelist and, eventually, a baronet) who had an elderly aunt. She was an avid reader, and had been for all her life, and as happens with avid readers, one day she took it in mind to…

Get the Ball Rolling!

HARRY THE TRUE, AND THE JERSEY BLUE. BY F. BUCKINGHAM GRAHAM. Air — What has caused this great commotion. What has caused this agitation, ‘tation, ‘tation, Our country through? It is the ball a rolling on, For Harry the true, and the Jersey Blue, For Harry the true, and the Jersey Blue, For with themContinue reading “Get the Ball Rolling!”

Now Here’s to Thee of the Frozen North

The National Clay Minstrel, and Frelinghuysen Melodist marches to battle, as the Vermont delegation arrives at the convention. THE VERMONTER’S SONG AT BALTIMORE. Tune— “Old Dan Tucker.” From “Yankee Land” — at dawn of day — We all set out on our joyous way, Our flags we unfurled — and our mountains rung With theContinue reading “Now Here’s to Thee of the Frozen North”