In addition to Xy’s birthday, we’re also celebrating Persephone’s 25,000th hour of life today; but how to explain this number to a toddler?
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In addition to Xy’s birthday, we’re also celebrating Persephone’s 25,000th hour of life today; but how to explain this number to a toddler?
Persephone is a thousand today. It’s her thousandth day of life. It seems like the sort of thing that should be celebrated, and I’ve had…
I’m quoted in this Gambit article by Sarah Eddington. I use big words like “maximal” and “expeditiously” and “stuff.”
Generated by Wordle from a poem by Krystal G., a sixth-grade girl in downtown Indianapolis. Here’s a couple other Wordles I made:
Here are three words I learned over the past days and weeks, which I can now promptly forget. Vernix: waxy white coating that’s all over…
For various reasons I’ve made an effort over the years to eliminate God-talk from my everyday speech. I try not to make casual reference to…
Xy & I have been living in New Orleans for six years now. But we’ve only been married for eleven and a half years. That…
David and I were discussing an NPR story about untranslatable words this morning, and it reminded me of two words from Norden that I hadn’t…
At the grocery store this afternoon, I picked up a six of Sapporo and a bottle of Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout. The cashier did not…
Mike finished his 30th round of Scrabble yesterday. His final standing for the tournament: He’s ranked #118 in Division 1, having won fourteen games and…
Miike won five games and lost three today at the Scrabble Championship. One of his opponents scored a triple triple with the word defiling. A…
Mike, my father-in-law, didn’t do quite as well today at the National Scrabble Championship. He won two games and lost five. Joey Mallick, whom I…
My in-laws are in town, and Pops is playing in the National Scrabble Championship, which started today. I just checked the Web and saw his…