A SHORT FRIENDSHIP
(A tribute to Bill Thorne, The Tomato Man) by Jean Steel Venrick He was a soft-spoken, gentle man, tall and thin with no outstanding features. I met him only once, ...
Archive for March, 2006
SOME BIRD FACTS
In our world of millisecond technology it may surprise some that there are some facts that have been around longer than the internet, the computer, the television, radio or the ...
LIFE — a simple thing
WHEN you stop and think about it, LIFE in itself and the many components of life as we know it are very simple. Some of the simplicity is a result ...
THE RIGHT RITE
Many, many moons ago a group of folks decided they’d had enough of their king. So they up and revolted and started a new world, a world of equality and ...
CUT FREE OF THE LOOM
To a weaver, this is may be an old term or axiom, but to others the expression probably needs some explanation. When a weaver’s work is finished after having thrown ...
VIGNETTES – Episode One
The stories or tidbits about The Wordwright which are planned for this section are being labeled VIGNETTES. With the usual reaching for the dictionary the definition of vignette comes in ...
GROWING through middle age
Michael E. Coughlin, printer and publisher, now in Cornucopia, Wisconsin, published a small 12 page booklet in 1988 by the title of GROWING, As a fellow member of the American ...
COMMUNICATION — what’s there to say?
Upon choosing the moniker, THE WORDWRIGHT, some could view it as presumptuous, but believe me, the title has been long in coming. Roy Underhill, The WOODWRIGHT, has entertained and taught ...