Commonplace Blog

commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.

commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The moon's in charge

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The tides might tell themselves stories about why they’re rushing in and out, but it’s ultimately the moon that’s in charge. Leslie Jamison,...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Thanks, teachers!

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Thank you to the English teachers of Kansas public schools, who told a child from a family of laborers that she was a writer who deserved to...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Reading? Not in the Smallweed family

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 "Don't you read or get read to?"  The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. "No, no. We have never been reader...

Wiglomeration

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"Here he is, Esther," said Mr. Jarndyce, comfortably putting his hands into his pockets and stretching out his legs. "He must...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Some Birthdays Are Like That

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“Listen to what it says in the horoscopes: ‘If it is your birthday, there may be an increased amount of mail. Expect gifts, friendly salutat...

Hitting 50 Isn’t So Bad

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That’s the thing about hitting fifty. All your life you think the half century is death’s adolescence, but actually it’s really not that bad...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Keeping track of papers is hard

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Ulysses S. Grant, who left office in 1877, said,  “The only place I ever found in my life to put a paper so as to find it again was either a...
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