The Wormlips Scrapbook

My sister, trying to comprehend something, said, “I just can’t wrap my teeth around it.” According to a Library Journal article by Stephen Abram that Sally forwarded, the Chinese representation of the word for change combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Perhaps they see the relationship between the two as equal. I don’t. This [...]

If you’re reading this, your opinion matters to me. Even if you never interact with blogs, would you consider weighing in just this once? It would really help (and it’s totally anonymous). Here’s the situation: I’m thinking it might be fun to enter a photo or two into a travel photo contest, though my pix [...]

Here are pictures I took today on my seven-mile hike with Anna in Tilden Park. My mother-in-law, Helen, once referred to the dry, summer hills of California as “burnished,” which (she would have known) derives from a Middle English word for “brown.” I’ve always thought it was an evocative description of the shine of brittle [...]