In general, I’m happy to be on this side of the grass, to read the paper in the morning and see that my obituary is not printed there. Read More

Didn’t learn about history, Didn’t learn biology, Didn’t learn about a science book, Didn’t learn about the math I took. In short, American kids have been robbed of more than a year of education by the coronavirus and the failure of the previous administration to even try to control the pandemic.  It has been frustrating… Read More

That is occasionally TMI for them. Read More

I don't know the name of the horse. Read More

They were experiencing a heat wave - it only got down to -30 degrees Celsius. Read More

You had to lie on your side make sure you were pointed down-grade. Read More

In the final analysis, I am happy. Read More

By halfway through the episodes, I found myself recalling a lot of the vocabulary from my French A class back in 1967-68. Read More

He marched into the high school and asked to be directed to "the headmaster's office." Read More

I have always been a voracious reader, and therefore learned to spell as a result of seeing a lot of words, although my pronouncing some of those words often caused a humorous response from my teachers. My older daughter followed in my footsteps when it came to spelling,  When she was in sixth form at… Read More