“The Hill We Climb”

by | January 21, 2021 | Articles, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting

By Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate of the United States: Delivered 20 January 2021 When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet...

Summer Reading List

by | September 1, 2020 | About the Site, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting

Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do.  Sometimes it all feels like March has been extended for an indefinite run.  (September 1 would be...

The Use & Abuse of Words

by | March 9, 2018 | Articles, Finance, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting

John Adams notably wrote that “facts are stubborn things.”  Words, however, can be fluid, flexible, and subject at times to arbitrary diktat.  This last sense was famously expressed in Alice in Wonderland  “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather...
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