Readers, you probably know all too well by now our penchant for letters at the Dean house – we try and write a couple each weekend. I have started replying to personal emails (if I have not replied during the week) with a letter so that I spend a bit less time in front of [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
January 4, 2012
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The Power of Mail
By Jason W. Dean in Personal, WritingThe holiday season (which is just about over as of this writing) is quite the time for mail. Holiday cards and letters, thank-you notes, and packages filled with presents. It’s amusing, then, that it appears that the postal service is ending next-day delivery and shuttering many of its locations across the US. Of course, as [...]
August 31, 2011
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In the Shadow of Lincoln
By Jason W. Dean in Books, Reading, WritingI’ve always had things that I read or discover in passing that pique my interest and push me into reading extensively about a subject. Among my more recent interests in this vein has been Abraham Lincoln. My interest first came when I read the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin shortly after it [...]
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Dispatch from Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant April 7 1865, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Quakers
August 22, 2011
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The Adventures of Q, Chapter 5.
By Jen Dean in Adventures of Q, Education, Series, WritingI would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. – Tom Hanks in You’ve Got Mail Each year, as autumn approaches, I take on a feeling of youthful giddiness. I am apt to incorporate a spring to [...]
August 1, 2011
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Verisimilitude, gravitumbling and the construction of cardboard forts.
By Jen Dean in Reading, WritingFor all of my recent talk of formalities and grammar, I feel as if I should swing the pendulum a bit and dare to walk on the other side of the pedantic road. While formulating a strong resume and knowing your punctuation well enough to start an internet revolution is of importance, it is of [...]
