Category: THE WRITING LIFE
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Of Chinese restaurants and clichés
People in the village are eschewing the local Chinese restaurant. (I’ve never cared for that word eschew, which has nothing to do with chewing — it’s from mid-14th century Old French eschiver, to shun, to avoid.) But I digress, as the cliché goes — now there’s a word that itself has become a cliché, and…
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Of cats and the dead
I know a lot of dead people. I don’t call them anymore. I used to dial A for Afterlife. Never an answer. Talking into a dead phone.
Mary Saves the Day 