Robert Frost’s 1915 poem is quoted a lot here at The Citadel. It’s in The Guidon — on page 16, knobs! — which is the standard “how-to-be-a-cadet” book that must be memorized by all students. It’s on posters and admissions materials. Heck, it’s even referenced on the cover of a …
I thought today, for no good reason at all, about the Novel-writing sketch by Monty Python. The “video” below is audio only, but it still gets the point across:
I’m getting very, very tired of being ill. I can hardly remember a period of such prolonged blechitude in my life. It’s been months since I could say I was 100% chipper, and that ain’t right. Alas, it’s so bad at the moment that I might actually have to cancel …
I like Charleston. I really do. But I’m finding I don’t like the catkins around here. Heck, I didn’t even know what catkins were until recently. Pictured at left, they’re the male part of the pollenation process of oak trees (apparently), though I know them only as the clouds of …
After all of our work moving rooms around in preparation for Child 2.0’s arrival, we’ve now set ourselves upon an attic and closet purge. It’s good to do this now and then, as one can all too easily turn into a packrat forever hauling around stuff that will never be …