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This is my personal blog. It records notes from whatever I am currently studying, words I want to remember to use correctly, records of other things I want to remember, or an opinion I want to think my way through. Sometimes I publish short stories here. As to who I am, let it suffice to know I am a grandchild (with Madeliene L’Engle) of George MacDonald, a child of the Inklings, and the one who always wonders, “What is behind that wardrobe cabinet?” And, I’m one of the proofreaders/editors for Project Gutenberg, so, yes, I might be the one to blame for missing that wrong letter inserted by our optical character recognition. On the other hand, I may have been the editor who caught all the ones you didn’t find. And, I also have a personal journal online. It holds my innermost thoughts, is occasionally highly personal and opinionated, but is never really interesting.
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Motto: Lex orandi, lex credendi
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Recently someone told me about a coworker who was so puffed up that the inevitable collision with a pin took out half the office. I told her that was Rule Number Eight. See my Rules of Life. Rule Number Eight states that the more you believe you are invincible, the more vincible you become.
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The dwarf on the spot sometimes sees things missed by the travelling giant ranging many countries. —- J.R.R. Tolkien
Author Archives: Don Cram
Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman has continued these Leaphorn & Chee mysteries after her father’s death. They are excellent, continuing the settings and characters made famous by her the Tony Hillerman Navajo police mysteries, perhaps even better since they include a feminine perspective. … Continue reading
Surnames
The study of how names came to be is called onomastics. In Britain, surnames were rare until the arrival of William the Conqueror. Until the nineteenth century the Dutch still did not use surnames generally. This perturbed Napoleon who ordered … Continue reading
Protest Too Much
“Methinks thou dost protest too much” is a fine example of iambic poetry, but it is not what Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” iambic and pentameter, is what he wrote in Hamlet, Act III, … Continue reading