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In Italian, as in Latin, the letter i at the end of a word denotes a plural.  That means that, no, you are not “an alumni” of West Central North Jefferson Technical College, you are an alumnus (or an alumna, if you are a female) of that fine institution.  Alumni is the plural of alumnus [...]

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Today is the last Sunday in the Church Year, called Christ the King Sunday.  For many Christians, this Sunday gets lost in the hectic run-up to what the retailers call “the holiday shopping season,” but we dare not miss Christ the King Sunday!  The doctrine of Christ the King is absolutely essential not only to [...]

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Hermeneutics.  It’s not a word most people throw around every day, but it’s a very important concept nonetheless.
This week, I had to respond to a letter in which lots o’ Scripture was quoted at me.  Ever get one of those?  The first thing I had to do was try to figure out the hermeneutic at [...]

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I haven’t been on here in a month o’ Sundays.  My loyal readership has no doubt gone elsewhere seeking intellectual stimulation.  (As long as that’s all you’re seeking on the Interwebs.  There’s lots o’ bad stuff out there, people.)
For breakfast, with my usual hard-cooked egg and green tea, I had toast made from homemade whole-wheat [...]

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We’ve been migrating servers.  That’s why it was down for a while.  It’s back though.  However, in the move, all the comments from the last 3-4 posts were lost.  So everyone go back and post your exact comments, in the same order.  Thanks.
Now that the blog has been moved and upgraded to a newer version [...]

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Hey, Chef!? Welcome to the blog neighborhood.
Everyone make Chef feel welcome.? Take some brownies to her blog or something.

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Mark sent me this link from the New York Times. Thanks, Mark, for letting us know. She will be greatly missed.
Update: please read Laurel’s beautiful tribute to Madeleine L’Engle.

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I know that we are now in the realm of pure preference. When it comes to HP cover art, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Flame me if you must, but here goes:
I don’t care for Mary GrandPr?’s illustrations of the HP series. I just don’t.

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Since that last post, I’ve been thinking about what I said about finding changes in spelling acceptable. I’m not so sure about that anymore. I mean, why change anything at all? We are English speakers and English readers: surely we won’t be thrown by alternate spellings, will we? I personally [...]

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The local folks know that with the previous six HP books, we have ordered the UK editions from Amazon.co.uk. This has seemed really geeky to a lot of people I’m sure, and puzzling to others. Why go to all that trouble and expense? Well, it’s not really any trouble thanks to Al [...]

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