The Wordwright :: Bill & Jean Venrick, Lancaster Ohio

Archive for November, 2009

MORE WORDS WITH A SMILE…

WILL ROGERS WISDOM At our house were two books that stand out in my mind: a book about the life and death of Will Rogers and Moby Dick. I only ...

PHOTOGRAPHIC FAMILY TRACKS

The passing of loved ones, whether it be parents, children or siblings, creates a need for us to “look back” in our mind’s eye to conjure up sufficient memories to ...

NEIGHBOR, a word study

T. J. RAY, Guest essayist, from Oxford, Mississippi Retired English professor – University of Mississippi Mom often rebuked Mr. Catledge for letting his hunting dogs, which he kept in his ...

WORDS WITH A SMILE

HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS) Volume One Attribution is unknown — many of these have been around and around for many years. I wondered why the baseball was getting ...

WHAT DID HE SAY?

Words “make the world go around”. Words make or lose the sale. “A word fitly spoke is like apples of Gold…” (Proverbs 25:11a. KJV). It has always been so. Even ...