WHEN IS ENOUGH TOO MUCH?
Essay by Robert J. Tinsky, Oblong, Illinois Guest Essayist About 3000 years ago King Solomon wrote: “Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”
Archive for August, 2008
SCHOOLS, One Teacher’s View
By T. J. Ray, Oxford, Mississippi Note from THE WORDWRIGHT – This is a heavy subject and more than cursory thoughts are necessary. Public School Boards of Education nationwide would ...
I AIN’T DEAD YET
Copyrighted 2008 Robert J. Tinsky, Guest Essayist Edith Clark was the grandmother of our daughter’s husband. She died earlier this year at the ripe old age of 99. Edith lived ...
SOUR GRAPES
“Sour Grapes” – Attribution to Aesop’s fables for the expression. Meaning: A scorning or belittling of something only because it can’t be had or done. I might be broadening the ...
As we grow older changes will come.
Written by Robert J. Tinsky, Oblong, Illinois – Copyrighted 2008
EVERLASTING PRINCIPLES
As a young preacher and teacher I often used a two-word key phrase “Everlasting Principles” to say something in as few words as possible. Then, and now, I still believe ...
ARE WE SWEET ENOUGH YET?
It is almost impossible to watch TV any day without being reminded we might not be strong enough, or in “good shape” and have perfect abs or that we might ...
CONFESSIONS OF TWO PACKRATS
Just to keep the record straight, this is the same guy who wrote, “SIX ALARMING WORDS”, the words that my wife said, “I think I had a stroke.” And this ...