Welcome, Happy Morning
We first posted this on Easter 2019. This great Easter hymn was composed by Venantius Fortunatus, an Italian who lived roughly from 530 to 600 or some time thereafter
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Easter Fairytales
Living so beguilingly close to the epicenter of progress as the gentle reader is, he need not be told of its joys, one of which is waiting on hold when telephoning a commercial enterprise.
Audio Book Club: As You Like It
Frank Brownlow joins Thomas Fleming and friends for a discussion of one of Shakespeare’s most delightful plays.
Wednesday’s Child: O to be a Lumberjack
Nikola Tesla, who could have been the protagonist of Down and Out in Paris in London had Orwell been an engineer of genius, invented, among his countless futurist follies, remote control.
Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South, Part 2
Attachment to kinfolk is not simply a Charleston mania, though it might seem so if you remember the old joke: “Why are Charlestonians like the Chinese?
Happy Tax Day!
I try not to look back. But one thing I wish I had done was loosen the thumb screws the government puts into me from taxes. I should have bought a house back when they were a lot cheaper in California
Greek I.13
Pronouns, that is, words that stand in for nouns, come in different types, principally personal (I, thou, he, she etc.), interrogative (who? what? etc), and demonstrative (this, that etc).
Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South, Part 1 of 3
This is a corrected and revised version of a talk delivered to an Abbeville Institute program held at Hopsewee Plantation on the Santee River in Lowcountry South Carolina.
Wednesday’s Child: A Road Not Taken
Wasting time, as one does perusing the newly released JFK files, may yield the bonus of a walk down memo lane.
