A Holy Place
September 11, 2018: Thousands of survivors, rescuers and relatives of the dead gathered at the national memorial in New York City to honor those who had died in the horrific…
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Circles of Time
The air shimmered. A flash cut the sky, but no thunder. The ground quivered, then settled, as in an earthquake. Polly looked around. Trees grew thicker, taller. A lake filled…
Active Voice
Subjects and predicates, past tense and future tense, dangling participles, active and passive voice. Ah, the wondrous days of seventh grade English class. In active voice, of course, the subject…
Beyond the Emoji
It’s a great emoji: The little yellow face is tilted to the left, with a teeth-revealing grin and pink tongue sticking out at the corner of the mouth. Two eyes. …
Not of this world
As Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11 in 1963, astronaut Mike Collins orbited the moon alone while his co-explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin famously landed, walked and hopped on…
Keepsake
Most of us keep mementos, keepsakes that we cherish, often in the form of photographs. They can be in a gold locket we wear around our neck. They can be…
