Build good fences, make good friends, and keep your laundry indoors. ~ A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten All good advice, though some might argue with the laundry bit. In any case, this post primarily focuses on fences, which humans have been building for much longer than you might think, and for reasons that transcend cultural […]
Fences – A Bit of Etymology, A Modicum History Read More »
The first scone is what I like to call the practice scone. It not until the third -nay fourth- that you develop any kind of scone-eating expertise. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes I have enjoyed scones many times, and while I don’t think I could consume four at one sitting, I wish I could. American Biscuits are
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In the argot of the cycle world, the Harley is a “hog,” and the outlaw bike is a “chopped hog.” ~Hunter S. Thompson I always thought that Harleys were called “hogs” because compared to other motorcycles, they used a lot of gas. While I’ve seen alternate stories, that isn’t one of them. Here are two
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. ~Jim Bunning Even if the biggest garden you ever tended was the size of a postage stamp and you only grew tomatoes, you know how much labor
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I was never very picky about accepting only talented or extra-talented people. That was never my priority. It was always to discover if I saw a possibility for improvement. Those are the cases that make you feel that what you are doing is rewarding, when you see the progress the student is making because of
The History & Beauty of Strings Read More »
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. ~ Anthony Bourdain We derive much of who we are from our environment, and what we eat is as much a part of that
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. ~ G.K. Chesterton Well, the updated fairy tales read the way Chesterton described them, but they didn’t all start that way. There’s a dark side, or there was as the stories were
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How would your life be different if …you walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day … you speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ~Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth and Being Free For as long as I can remember, gossiping has
Gossip? You talk like that’s a bad thing. Read More »
To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough In a recent conversation I
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This house has enough nooks and crannies for an English muffin. ~Kathy Bryson Yes, I’m well aware I write about food quite often. There’s the one on coffee and the one on grits, and on ice cream. I could go on, but this blog is all about thought, and I do think about food with
A rose by any other name: English muffins? Really? Read More »
On this Independence Day, let us be grateful that we have such words and such examples to follow… that others were willing to sacrifice so much to create a land in which liberty and law can be protected. Let us not destroy our history. Let us learn from it by preserving and celebrating what was
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