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  02/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just this minute got in on the end of an old Randolph Scott movie whose name is, I am pretty sure, Thunder Over The (Continue Reading)

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From here forward

  04/21/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From over a year ago: This past week I ejected myself from all on-line activities except e-mail and this blog. No more flteach, after 20 (Continue Reading)

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draft of initial post to listsservs flteach first

  03/13/2019       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Due to various exigencies I got off the listservs flteach, moretprs and latinbestpractices over a year ago. In that time, my granddaughter wanted me to (Continue Reading)

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The shrinking society

  03/13/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Returning to my listservs I left over a year ago, I found the number of posts to be drastically reduced; on one list only one (Continue Reading)

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Thanks to my visitors

  03/10/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I seldom look at my stats and when I do, I am amazed. Who reads my stuff and why don’t they comment? Just today I (Continue Reading)

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Autistic language – a sample

  08/02/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This morning my grandson was telling me about the new rigor on the part of security officers on campus and how you had to get (Continue Reading)

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Computer up-date

  02/13/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I got the new computer back from the shop today. Nothing seriously wrong. The tech guy got rid of the offending site, a recipe, and (Continue Reading)

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Finished

  01/18/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve withdrawn from the listservs I’ve been on: flteach, moretprs, Latin-Bestpractices. I am getting off Facebook  which I joined recently just to get on CI (Continue Reading)

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Storms: real and metaphorical

  09/08/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group rode out the storm in a fortified wine cellar” Now there’s a man who knows how to weather (Continue Reading)

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Pithy saying

  08/25/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The larger your island of knowledge gets, the larger your shoreline of ignorance grows.

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Half-way on board

  01/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As Wes explained, my blog host died and he had to switch me to Word Press. I was already a subscriber, so of course WP (Continue Reading)

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A new category

  02/28/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From Listserv Archives will serve as a repository for some of my better posts i.e. more informative, clearer, and impassioned, from the many thousands of (Continue Reading)

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