Lucinda can write her first and last names now, so she got her own library card today. She was very pleased with this, and she checked out about a foot-high stack of books.
After dinner, we made a fire in the fireplace, and Lucinda toasted marshmallows.
"Whereas a mathematician, a physicist or a biologist can read
Shakespeare or Jane Austen and make some sense of the text,
appreciate its beauty, be enthralled by its power and even moved emotionally to laughter or tears, that is not how an English professor reacts to Maxwell's equations." Dr. Neal Lane