The crazy lady strikes again for Tuesday, July 18, 2006

As I was typing an entry in one of my other blogs - I think it was From Death Into Life, but I'm not sure - our landlord called. (I was so busy typing when he called that I didn't answer the phone, so he left a message.) As Garfield said in her blog today, I was so upset by this turn of events that the only parts of his voice mail message which "registered" in my brain were his name, the sentence "I got your letter," and his cellphone number. Although I really was afraid, as Garfield said, that... Sign in to see full entry.

In an entry in my blog From Death Into Life, accessible through my member profile, I use a similar term to describe a sea change in the use of language at my parish. (Read that entry if you want to find out where I got the title.) This time around, I want to talk about an example of linguistic legerdemain in the secular realm. When my daughter was in the local elementary school, the resource teacher (a certified teacher who serves exclusively as a consultant, or resource, to faculty members... Sign in to see full entry.