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The Great Vowel Shift

31 May 2026 1 minute read 2 comments rah

Yes you did read that correctly. I am not going to talk about any bowel shift, great, small or otherwise. Some things just need to stay private. Confession time, I actually wrote this article on Friday at the same time as I wrote "yesterday's" articl...

How Modern English came to us.

30 May 2026 5 minute read 3 comments rah

English belongs to the Germanic arm of the Indo-European family of languages that can roughly be defined as Slavic / Slavonic (central and East European, reaching down into the northern parts of the Balkans -eg Serbia, Monetnegro), Romantic (Mediterr...

August 2021: Emma's sophomore year begins

26 Jan 2026 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    Considering that we have lived apart for most of her existence, and much of it in completely different states, even, there’s an awful lot I feel like I’ve missed out on over the years with Emma. Visitation time is awesome, but it only c...

My son reads better than I thought

17 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Parenting is an endless, thankless slog, so the joy it sparkles hits like a missile strike, except that the ripples it triggers descend gently upon my soul. My son was reading a text about stationery from his textbook. He struggled with some words —...

Wiz Drip 159. Transform Your Life and Carve Your Path

10 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

LITERACY. You scroll through mud, looking for a briefing, only to realize that power lies inside your meaning. Enveloped in miracles, you turn nuances and words into picturesque fables, inviting the mind to relax and elicit translucent dreams. The ab...

“What dwells in the deep?”

10 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I’m not sure how I feel about being a once-again pri sch teacher again, but one thing’s crystal clear certain. My parenting and teaching lives have become inextricably integrated. Never have one facet of my life fed so seamlessly into the next, syner...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 28

14 Sep 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Regardless where you are, something important is always happening. It’s just that you cannot possibly always know — indeed, will usually have extremely misguided notions concerning — where to properly allocate your attention. Attempts at assigning i...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 22

2 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Yes, I have a black name,” is one of the first things out of Shoniqua’s mouth, this maiden voyage meeting her. Though I haven’t mentioned that, she is apparently used to hearing such, hence the preemptive strike. Yet still must prefer it to he...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 18

29 Aug 2025 22 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

I get it, though. If you’re going to entertain some unusual notions about conquering this daily farce, then you risk others not exactly endorsing your stunts. And this is possibly a positive. The fewer bodies jammed onto this elevator — regard...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 16

28 Aug 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Even though I’m not so sure he knows what he’s talking about, Phil seems quite convinced of this point. And he is presumably enjoying some success with this approach, out on the town with Jen. Or more accurately, at Bootleggers with Jen, where...