by Christine | Apr 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
Mark Twain is supposed to have said “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.” The same is often true about a lot of things that folks like to talk about. But unlike the weather, there are a great many things we can influence, but...
by Christine | Nov 20, 2007 | Welcome Column
Last Fathers Day my youngest son, Peter, presented me with a big, neatly gift wrapped box, bow on top, chalk full of East Indian cooking supplies. He knows I enjoy cooking Indian food and knows there are no Indian grocery stores up here in the hinterland, so young...
by Christine | Jul 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
I remember as a lad, getting up on Thanksgiving morning and watching the parade in New York City. The big floats, and those giant balloons, and oddball things like baton-twirling troupes and the like – it was quite a spectacle. Over the years, though, the parade...
by Christine | Apr 9, 2011 | Welcome Column
Paraprosdokian sentences are based on a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader (or listener) to reinterpret or re-frame the first part. Paraprosdokian is from the Greek meaning...
by Christine | Feb 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
Paraprosdokian sentences are based on a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader (or listener) to reinterpret or re-frame the first part. Paraprosdokian is from the Greek meaning...
