Fancy footwear

For a kid who spent at least 40% of the year barefoot, I sure set a store by my shoes. Scene: I’d been trying to be cool with some other kids, and we went to a shoe store in the mall to try on the platform sandals, some of which increased our height by at […]

I love Latin class!

I took three years (yes, three) of Latin in high school. For the first year we studied lots of vocabulary, conjugated verbs and declined nouns. I don’t know if “declined” is the right word (it probably isn’t), but I use it because Latin nouns have inflected endings just like the verbs. Verbs belong to different […]