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Sorry! I’m an old — in every sense of the word — teacher of Latin. I love thinking about grammar, vocabulary, and the use of language in general. Of course, I commit errors pretty much every day myself, but some mistakes must be addressed. In this piece Chris speaks of Trump’s smelling badly. The word badly is an adverb. The “-ly” is a dead giveaway. So, by saying Trump smells badly, one is saying that somehow his nose is not functioning well and his sense of smell is off.

This was a lot of fun to read. And emotive, as well, the way you linked it with your sister. Beautiful. I didn't know about spartan races but the name itself makes it clear it's not for the faint of heart 😅 Well done you. As for exclamation points in song titles, Shania Twain comes to the rescue, with not one, but three song titles: Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

Sohla! You have spent the last couple years just Creating and Creating, made vulnerable by laying out your ideas for all to witness. Your body created a baby, and now you are creating a loving and safe place for her to evolve. OUTPUT OUTPUT OUTPUT!!! It makes so much sense for you to pause, and hopefully you will be able to just take IN some information and art and love.

Love this post! Btw, if you didn’t know, the phrase is an iconic Twin Peaks: The Return line ... David Lynch’s FBI agent Gordon Cole tells David Duchovny’s trans agent Denise (now an FBI head) that when she became Denise (she’s a she), he told their fellow agents to ‘fix their hearts or die’. So, it’s now been adopted as a kind of anthem for trans rights. Expand full comment

I was hugely influenced by CIG! I was part of an improv troupe in grades 7 and 8, in high school our improv team was pretty competitive. But I still learned so much foundational stuff. I always think of the 5 elements of story (location, relationship, conflict, raising the stakes, resolution) when thinking about scene structure. Did you ever play ‘scene in 3’ ? At Sheridan I helped run an improv club, and it was so much fun cutting lose and having fun making scenes and playing games.

So what do you do when you have searched and found every church wanting. I am currently in a Vineyard based church. We have a home group at our home on Wednesday. The pastor and his wife attend and seem to long for the fellowship and sometimes the word i share. He has admitted to changing his preaching and views on judgement , negative parts of scripture that i often share.

I regret to inform you that every NHL team has a full analytics department, and the hockey has been “solved” in a similar manner to basketball already. Things are harder to implement because the speed of the game brings more randomness. There are also old school personalities (ie Torts the coach of my flyers) who are, for better or worse, stuck in their ways. However make no mistake, the same phenomenon has overtaken the NHL and changed the game in meaningful ways (including shot selection like the NBA).

I bought most of my knives at A Simon's in 1998, I got a nice student discount while attending Le Cordon Bleu. Everytime in Paris, I would make the tour from Dehillern, to Simon, to Detou, and finish with Mora. Stuff dreams are made of. But, frequently I would tire and need to rest at Les Cloches des Halles. Sadly, since changing hands it does pour St, Joseph by the glass nor appears to still have the superb onion tart.

It's interesting that you bring up this idea of the 30's being this great demarcation of generations. I don't think you're wrong. The Boomer ethos has been from the beginning steeped in the idea of perpetual adolescence. Even when the Flower Power, Counter-Culture Boomers moved into being "the adults" in the Reagan years, they still never quite... solidified, in a way. They never really accepted the fact that they were getting old and needed to take things seriously.