November 2020
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Last night, I was lying in bed comfortably reading Michael Kulikowski's excellent new book on the last years of the Roman Empire. I was concentrating very hard, because it's difficult for me to retain the decisions made at Nicaea in 325. I can read a paragraph about the Arian or some other "heresy" and five
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[March, 2012] Well, maybe not readers. Page-viewers. But did they view closely? Did they savor the wit and learning? Did they browse? Or did they merely Ctrl-C and plagiarize a few sentences for that high school essay which is due tomorrow morning? Still, 100,000 is a good round number. Some bloggers, alas, have as many
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What factors led a city boy, age 28, to purchase a rural property where he has now passed fifty glorious summers? Where he is as happy as a lark with a packet of seeds and a pruner, rake, and hoe. It all began with my father's love for his backyard garden. "Have you ever seen