The history of language is the history of humanity. It’s what separates us from the worms and the beasts. The philosopher Wittgenstein famously said that without […]
It seems like only last year I was sitting down to write my first limerick, embarking on a project that would eventually become my Encyclopedia of […]
Once in a while, someone asks me how I write so many limericks. In fact, I’ve hardly written any. I simply stop and listen. And then […]
In an era of willful ignorance, the time has come for educational limericks to rise from the mire and cast a light on the dark corners […]
The road to cool, calm and collected tranquility is not a straight and simple line. If it were, a lot more of us would have probably […]
In Germany, he is something like William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin all rolled into one. But in America, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) enjoys […]