October 5, 2024 | Rome, Italy

We Busted

In 1856 soon after graduating from Williams College, my maternal great-great grandfather John Stoneman left the upstate New York farm [...]

The New Mrs. Malaprop

“And he will avail.” In this sentence about the outcome of a plot, the writer confused “avail” with “prevail.” The […]

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Shovel and broom

Some people have parents who behave conventionally, not so in the case of columnist Madeleine Johnson, whose mother and father had methods all their own for dealing with the vicissitudes of daily life.