6 Personal Essays
Over The Years

1 - Rediscovering John Galsworthy

The quintessential love story told with luminous empathy


2 - How I Discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A novel that lit in me a tiny flame that burned brighter over the years


3 - Indignities in American Minor

Getting stripped naked at Customs one autumn day in the West Coast


4 - The Roots of English

Many English words have origins as baduy as earthbound "Marulas"


5 - A World Without English

When the mind couldn't grasp things beyond the little it knows


6 - The Evil That Ignorance and Incompetence Can Do

The day when our citrus orchard and our future burned to the crisp

6 Readings You Might
Have Missed

1 - A Recovered Ancient Manuscript Changes the Course of Human Thought

The poem declared: "Gods don't meddle in affairs of the universe"


2 - A Great Teacher Shares Her Secrets To Persuasive, Compelling Writing

It's really all a matter of developing and supporting a basic idea, she says


3 - Antedated by 230 Years, A Poem's Noble Thoughts Placed in Jeopardy

Its false centuries' old patina gave it greater depth and charm


4 - A Father's Letter to His Son's Teacher

Despite being bogus, its wisdom can stand without guile or Lincoln


5 - A Taste of Vintage Mencken

Heady, spellbinding opinions said in majestic English prose


6 - The Real Wonder is That Humans Ever Discovered Science at All

It developed not in "Eureka!" fashion but from glacial build-up of evidence

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