Collecting My Thoughts

At first it was tongue in cheek--referring to Obama as "the messiah" during the campaign. After all, it was so far beyond the pale...

Learning from the past The dueling speeches--Cheney and Obama--certainly show that we have administrations with entirely different perspecti...

You look just like your mother When my college roommate met me at the Seattle airport in 1996 after many years of not being together, I said...

The training of children As I've mentioned before, I've been reading a chapter a day of Westminster Pulpit (10 volumes, compiled fro...

Today's new word is SELFSAME Whether this is British English, or just old fashioned, I rarely come across SELFSAME unless reading someth...