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  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November, 23, 2010 While today Percy Bysshe Shelley is generally recognized as one of the shining lights of English poetry, during his own lifetime and for a generation after his death he was not so widely Read more

  • Easy on the Tongue

    I am not certain when or how the insult jackwagon first entered, or more likely re-entered, my daily vocabulary. But it has. Words are just that way. Sometimes we will find a word waiting for us on the tip of our tongues and we have no idea where or how it got there. Was it a word we recently Read more