This week, my challenge is to work out every day. I figured that was a good way to kick start my year of healthier activity. This morning, before I sat down with my first cup of coffee, I did a ten-minute yoga stretch, and a twenty minute workout. By gosh! One day in to this...
And, through reading, I’ve known for years that Belgium produces fine beers, most of which (save for beers made by Leffe, Stella Artois and a couple of other breweries) do not find their way to the USA, the nation I call home. I’m happy to report that I downed delicious brews in...
in turn, we will have understood because we have likened it to something else we had previously understood, and so on. It’s metaphors all the way down.
my father would get in his Cadillac and head down South to visit his family. Henevertook any of his children South. I resented him for this. I didn’t understand that this was his way to protect me. But as a tween
Another way they got me to go upstairs was going up step-by-step on my bottom. I found that incredibly difficult (but I did it). By the end of the hour’s home visit my legs were shattered. That hour was probably the most intense physiotherapy I’d had since my operation. Eight ...
or papers relating in any way, or extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.” The resolution passed by a vote of 177 to 68. ...
I finally made them tonight after bogging down in my months-long project to cook and rewrite my way through his Kitchen Primer and I’m eating a few of them now as I write this. They’re not just loaded with fat, mind you, but along with that anchovy paste is Worcestershire sauce, ...
唯is another way of writing 惟. The modern equivalent is 嗯, an interjection indicating agreement, approval or appreciation. 唯唯, self deprecating form of saying yes. 唯唯諾諾 = obsequious, a yes man. Lesson 60 做善者不求人知 do good one_who not seek man know 做惡者不使人知 do evil...
One day Governor Sukegimi and his men got together to study the best way to make the cat-hater pay taxes. “If we leave this matter unsettled, he will never pay the taxes. We must do something.” “As he is a goi-holder, we cannot punish him merely for not paying. He is crafty...