Trevor Butterworth
I love the semicolon. There, I’ve said it. Fun essay about them and the fact that Americans tend to avoid them.
Big deal or not, there is really only one use of the semicolon that is “more or less mandated”, says Ben Yagoda, professor of English at the University of Delaware and author [...]
I’ve joked before about the dangers inherent in carrying the nearly-identically-packaged “Toms’ of Maine wintermint toothpaste” and “Toms’ of Maine mint shaving cream” in the same toiletries kit while traveling.
That said, last night was the first time I actually squeezed some “naturally conditioning shave cream” onto my toothbrush and brushed my teeth for 3 [...]
Mayme Noda
John took this excellent picture of Mayme (at Kesaya’s wedding, I believe).
Also, some years ago, NHPR did a piece about Mayme and Lafayette and their lives:
http://www.nhpr.org/node/5519
Our friend Mayme Noda died last night. She’d had a cold for a week, which turned into pneumonia, and in just three days she declined and faded. Her family had all gathered, and they withdrew support last night at Darthmouth-Hitchcock, at sunset, with her bed facing out to the trees. She was [...]
Despite going to bed late last night, I woke up this morning well before the alarm went off. In a dream, I had just had a long training experience in a Russian space camp, followed by putting on a space suit, climbing onto what looked like a T-bar (i.e. the metal T used to [...]