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Tag: Writing
A Story about Laundry
At first, I thought the man in my building’s basement laundry room was Tom Sawyer-ing his daughter. She looked maybe 11. And he had clearly tricked her into thinking that doing laundry was the most fun thing possible. Learning how to open the washer (it had a tricky handle), wrestling the heavy sheets and quilts …
Cursive
Last night, my husband and I were watching a Nova about the origins of the alphabet. As, at the end of the show, they traced the derivation of letters – “A” from a stylized Ox head, the “u” of the face topped with a wider “u” of horns; morphing into a “v” with a line …