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Though I generally enjoy my solitary days, living alone as the caretaker for my daughter’s four-bedroom house is not always idyllic. In addition to my own work, I keep the yard shaped up, maintain the house in reasonably good order, and prepare my meals. I try to eat healthy foods but take little pleasure in
READ MORERecently I was flipping through A Child’s History of the World, by Virgil Hillyer. I never used this classic textbook with my own children or my students, and now regret that oversight. Hillyer writes well and simply about the past and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, as evidenced by these lines:
READ MOREOn a shelf in my study is a large Chock full o’ Nuts coffee can. Whenever I return from a shopping trip, I throw all the coins in my pocket into that can. Every three or four months, my grandkids and I carry that can to the grocery store and dump the change into the
READ MOREFirst, the good news: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared an end to all Wuhan Flu restrictions in Great Britain. No more mandates. No more masks. No more lockdowns. No more vaccine passports. Boris’s speech last week in Parliament was “the most consequential statement by
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