Your Life, In Words

The world in general is a fan of biography — books about someone’s life. Biography is a self-descriptive word, being formed from bios (life) and graphia (writing). It was one of the original book categories in the awards known as the Pulitzer Prizes. Those prizes were established in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a journalist […]

The Road Less Traveled

You are probably familiar with Robert Frost, at least by name, and know he was a poet. You may even be familiar with his poem The Road Not Taken, though you may think of it (many do, including me) as The Road Less Traveled. That phrase, which does not appear in the poem, has entered […]

Hope, For Us All

Recently I had the privilege of hanging out with the swells for a few days. It’s not the kind of thing I get to do on a regular basis, so I was minding my P’s and Q’s. I may have done OK, because no one suggested that I leave. There might have even been a […]