Latest Doings
I'm teaching (some of) the writers of tomorrow in my English 101 course. We have a class weblog up at
http://weblogs.calvin.edu/weblogs?/engl101

I hope to have announcements soon about a weblog for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, where I'm newly employed...

... and the return of Inflections.

In the meantime, enjoy the redesigned website for CICW: www.calvin.edu/worship.

My latest Tribune column:
On the new book Word Origins and How We Know Them.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0503160148mar16,1,3402114.story

Quote I heard and need to retrieve: Kierkegaard said we "tranquilize ourselves with the trivial."

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I felt wimpy earlier this week when a driver wearing a Mennonite bonnet passed me on the highway. I guess I had always equated pacifism with passivity ...

My latest Tribune column:
On the Chipaya, a remote tribe in Bolivia that speaks a unique language.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0503010280mar02,1,6224749.story

(Chipaya is near Oruro, south of LaPaz.)