Truly Yours: A Letter Writer Who Perseveres
I happen to be a man of letters. I don’t mean in an academic sense but someone who still sits behind a keyboard and types letters to correspondents. No e-mails for them. Much too impersonal. […]
I happen to be a man of letters. I don’t mean in an academic sense but someone who still sits behind a keyboard and types letters to correspondents. No e-mails for them. Much too impersonal. […]
After facing harsh criticism for covering up Turkey’s desecration and destruction of thousands of Christian churches, Amb. Francis Ricciardone, President Obama’s appointee as ambassador to Turkey, reversed himself last week, acknowledging that most churches functioning […]
I grew up with Ross Bagdasarian and the chipmunks. So did my children and grandchildren. After all, who wouldn’t be attracted to those cheeky little varmints who scramble around your yard in search of food […]
From the Word Lab Serendipity: A word coined by Horace Walpole. In a Jan. 28, 1754 letter to Horace Mann, he said he formed it from the Persian fairytale “The Three Princes of Serendip,” whose […]
It seems we’re living in a time of apologies—some meaningful, some irrelevant; some asked or demanded, others received or refused; some for current and others historical offenses. Everyone seems to want to get into the […]
President Obama has an endless number of problems these days. Late last year, when Senators blocked several of his ambassadorial nominees, including the one to Turkey, the president resorted to the rarely used tactic of […]
I am harboring a most curious thought. I’m wondering what the state of affairs would be in Armenia were it not for those unsung heroes who pitch a hand for the welfare of that country. […]
Reformation “I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, […]
If President Obama ends up being a one-term president, he has no one to blame but himself. While it is true that he inherited the Bush Administration’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a devastated […]
Polish Proverb The greatest love is a mother’s, then a dog’s, then a sweetheart’s. Basic Smarts Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Credo Almost […]
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