It’s becoming increasingly encumbering to not be able to read Czech.
I’m faced with a choice, but even within that choice knowing Czech is advantageous.
History becomes dangerous once you start ascribing meaning to it. I don’t mean that in the sense that we can’t interpret history — I’ve wasted my life if that’s the case — but we get in trouble when we start thinking that because something happened in a certain way that it was meant to…
When I was in grade 3, I think, I was assigned to do some kind of family history. It probably had something to do with all four of my grandparents, and not just my namesake ones, but I can’t recall what I wrote for the other ones. There was a time that I probably did know that my Powell great…
Six Generations Removed from a Sack
