For those of you who read the Hunterdon County Democrat, you will be familiar with a long-time feature of the newspaper. Titled “Old Ink,” it gives short excerpts from stories 125, 100, 75 and 50 years ago. For a little while, they were publishing items from 175 years ago, which I much appreciated, but the editors changed their minds and went back to the old formula.
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Absence and Return
Much to my dismay, I have written very little on this blog during 2011. There were reasons, of course, but I very much regret losing the thread of so many interesting subjects. I hope I can pick up those threads in the next few months, and follow where they lead.
Time to Get Silly
Here is a quote to live by:
I take my work seriously, but I just can’t manage to take myself seriously for any length of time. (I’m also not very good at taking other people as seriously as they take themselves.)
Got it today from this interesting post. There’s a bizarre video on the truth of Martin Van Buren: Myth or Legend. Sometimes even bad humor is good.