Category Archives: Ideas and Opinions

What’s your word of the year?

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Ed Battistella

What words epitomized 2022? Earlier this month, the attendees at the American Dialect Society selected –ussy as the Word of the Year for 2022. It’s a word part, a suffix, that according to linguist Ben Zimmer, who emcees the Word … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia for old-school papers

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Ed Battistella

It was sad to see the Mail Tribune close last week. A once-proud paper, known for its local journalism, felled by economic forces and carpet-bagger ownership. It was the first Oregon newspaper to win a Pulitzer Prize, for taking on … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Jim Gilkeson

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Ed Battistella

Born and raised in Kansas, Jim Gilkeson studied languages in college in the 1960s, was a brother in an order of mystics, which took him to Europe. After leaving the order in the early 1980s, he studied energy healing with … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading 2022

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Ed Battistella

It’s back to school time! But there’s still time to report on my summer reading. In no particular order, with my mini-comments: The Critic– by Peter May Who would kill a wine critic? Who wouldn’t? The Call by P D … Continue reading →

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