Category Archives: Miscellany
Scintilla13 Day Three
Talk about a time when you were driving and you sang in the car, all alone. Why do you remember this song, and that stretch of road? This is a bit like asking me to talk about a time I used salt, and why I remember doing so for that particular meal. It quite …
Scintilla13, Day Two
Tell the story about something interesting (anything!) that happened to you, but tell it in the form of an instruction manual (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3….) How to End Up on E! Step One: Find something big and public with lots of people in a big city, (Example, 4th of July in Washington, …
Scintilla Day 1
I’ve decided to once again take part in the Scintilla Project this year, whereby bloggers are giving a prompt each day for two weeks. So my usual schedule of blogging will be a bit off for the rest of March. But it will do good for my writing skills. (And who doesn’t want that?) Today’s …
Review: The Art of Reading
Last night I completed a course on DVD from The Great Courses called “The Art of Reading”. The Four DVD set contains 24 lectures each of about 30 minutes in length. No mail-in evaluations, just lectures designed to be viewed from the privacy of your home. The lecturer was one Dr. Timothy Spurgin, English professor …
Tedious/Productive Weekend
They say the days of blog posts being of a personal nature are over. That there is no longer any reason to post on a blog about our daily lives, because nobody cares. In that case, feel free to stop here, because I’m going to that very thing. That’s because I spent a good portion …
Ty Unglebower 