Dear Gentle Reader,I assume you know about the tulip craze of the early seventeenth century in the Netherlands.And of the speculative tulip bubble that came to a crash in the start of 1637. Tulips, fresh from the Ottoman Empire, were relative novelties in the Netherlands which, itself, had ..
Dear Gentle Reader,It's 3WW time.This week (CLXIV) the words are accident, loyal, and obscene.As usual, each haiku gets its own American sentence title.Id and super-ego found dead, cause unknown, "accident" has been claimed...Loyal, royal weauto-support our obscene ego. Accident.If only opera ..
Dear Gentle Reader,Regular visitors know that I love words, especially less usual ones, such as words which vary over time, in either spelling or meaning.I also, however, recognize that words are not the be all and end all, despite the intellectual traditional I stem from. Today, a little stroll ..
Dear Gentle Reader,Be forewarned. Your humble scribe feels that it's time for a ramble; it's time to follow a neural chain.On my birthday I attended a Scottish ball, a black tie ceilidh, here in Hong Kong. A ceilidh is a Gaelic dancing social. Quick, nimble Gaelic dancing is usually accompanied ..
Dear Gentle Reader,It's 3WW time, again.Thank goodness.This week (CLXIII) the words are errant, hanker, and murky.Further, as usual, each haiku gets its very own American sentence title.We all host dark desires, but most let them be, to slip away; thank God.murky minds harbourerrant thoughts and ..