

- Apr 1, 2022
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and a Dane
I recall loathing my time in Mrs. Sailor's English (Literature) during high school (late 1960s) in south central Illinois. Boy, was I wrong and what I would give to revisit the opportunity. She regularly subjected the now understanding Mad Botanist and his classmates to her favorite author, Charles Dickens. How shocked would she be, though now long deceased, to learn that I eventually spent time as an English major, learned to love writing (cacoethes scribendi), and that I ha