Posts Tagged ‘History’

The Soul of Sarcasm

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I recently discovered that some smarty-pants put a reply comment on a book review that I posted at Amazon.  Actually, he wasn’t so much a smarty-pants as a stuck-up out-of-state relative of the person who wrote the book I reviewed.  Had to be a relative because no one but a relative or a grad student would have bought Ella Marie Rast’s “The Whole Dam Story: The Drowning and Rising of a River City in the West.”

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The Gracious Silence (or, Self-Preservation)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I used to call myself ‘the once and future history major’ because, yes, kind readers, I did think (in some small, brilliant remnant of myself that I fancy might be a soul) that majoring in History was just as important as being king.

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