In their well-known book, Metaphors We Live By , George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that metaphor is not simply a literary device but an i...

Part 3 of The Squonk At the conclusion of my discussion of the Buoys’ “Timothy” the day before yesterday, I observed that some readers might...

Although there are rather sophisticated Site Meter services available for monitoring website traffic, I use only the “basic” service—in oth...

Based on the personal emails I’ve received as well as a rather significant increase in the number of hits on my blogspot the past couple of ...