Would You Ever Sing ‘Myself and My Shadow’?
March 23, 2013
Dear Mr. Lederer: A day does not go by that I do not hear someone use myself in place of me or I. For example,
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Dear Mr. Lederer: A day does not go by that I do not hear someone use myself in place of me or I. For example,
Cavorting through a merry jig for St. Patrick’s Day, I shall throw some bull – not just any kind of bull, but an Irish bull.
This evening, Hal Holbrook will present his legendary one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight!” at the Balboa Theater. Twain held strong opinions about a passel of
Next Saturday, March 9, Hal Holbrook will present his legendary one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight!” at the Balboa Theatre. For almost 60 years Holbrook has
Americans have fallen deeply in love with that beguiling conspiracy of light and darkness and color and silence and sound and music that we call
Next Saturday, Feb. 23, at 11:15 a.m. I’ll be speaking at the U-T’s Successful Aging Exposition at the Town and Country. A writer’s reality is
In the English language, the heart is often used to denote the seat of passion, compassion, courage and intelligence. Of all the parts of the
Anyone who has imbibed the experience of Stephen Spielberg’s eloquent film “Lincoln” knows how Abraham Lincoln loved to infuse his statements with jokes that took
At the end of the 19th century, a crisis occurred in the Barnum & Bailey Circus. The man who was shot out of the cannon