January 2, 2026 Greetings, New Year’s is an interesting time. Commonly, people reevaluate their lives and settle on changes to make. These are personal promises and declarations which we call resolutions. These are often something like, “In the New Year, I resolve to…” Usually, these take two forms: positive and negative. Positive resolutions are …
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Schadenfreude no more
In English, when we need a new word, we may coin something new or borrow from another language. For example, we borrowed “cookie” from Dutch. If you hate math, you can thank Arabic for the word “algebra.” In German, the tendency is to take a descriptive phrase and make it into a single word. We …
April 2025 Newsletter
April 1, 2025 Greetings, I suppose I could start with a joke since today is April Fool’s Day. Recently, I commented that I found it interesting that it’s also election day here in Wisconsin. Something about that is almost poetic. I’ve often said that I don’t preach on politics or make political statements from …
Fear or Faith
Recently, our newest Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, told an audience that Supreme Court Justices are not partisan hacks. Here is a CBS News article about it. She wanted people to understand this because many are confused about how two judges can reach such different conclusions in the same case. The difference between them …