As others in the Thursday Doors group sometimes do, I went scrounging for doors in my old picture files. Some of these may have been posted before and some not, but they’re doorish, so here they are: A friend of mine used to live in…
Tag: memories
The other day, #4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, said something from another room that neither I nor her housemate, the marvelous Dora, could understand. Dora asked her to repeat it and she said something that was almost identical to what her grandmother, my mother,…
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary: late 14c., in Bible translations, the Hebrew word shibboleth, meaning “flood, stream,” also “ear of corn,” as used in Judges xii.4-6. During the slaughter at the fords of Jordan, the Gileadites took it as a password to distinguish their men…
