If you want to practice the Latin you learned–in school? church? Italy?–read the book How to Grow Old. You can read Latin on the left page. On the right page, read English words translated by an old Roman Senator named Marcus Tullius Cicero. When? March 44 BC. About the time when Julius Caesar should have listened to the “Beware the Ides of March” words of Bill Shakespeare and stayed in his basement. On Cicero’s page
Category: Books
Growing Up in Texas
Growing Up in the Lone Star State: Notable Texans Remember Their Childhood. Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom, authors. Good book. Took the two authors some forty years to compile. Gaylon Heckler and Marianne Odom interviewed forty-seven ‘Notable Texans’ who remember their childhood. Bought book. Reading. Recommend. Personally acquainted with nine of the notable Texans. The late Dan Jenkins, author, was my late wife Betty’s cousin. Growing up 1936, the young cousins got in trouble