May 2010
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I’m posting this account of something that happened some years ago just because I happened to think of it. A little girl of seven or eight, who didn’t speak with perfect grammar, was telling the knock-knock joke that goes like this, with her doing the knock-knock part: Knock knock—Who’s there? Banana —Banana who? Knock knock…
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And…and…it was like 500 feet tall…and it had glowing red eyes…and they kept blinking and blinking….
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I was unexpectedly called to Washington to meet with the president. That’s actually true, and I’ve been dying to say it, though putting it that way fails to take the full context into account, as I’ll explain. Remember that when you’re reading, for instance, a news story about the Pope in which the writer clearly…
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I'm having to go out of town very unexpectedly (long story, nothing's wrong). I'll be leaving in a couple of hours and won't be back till late Monday night. I don't think I'll take my laptop so you probably won't hear from me again till sometime Tuesday. With luck I'll be able to write the…
Light On Dark Water 