Linguistics and Life

I’ve just returned from a short trip to the mountains of northern Mexico and it was great. For several years I’ve been helping to prepare literacy books for a remote group of Native people. To see these adults now reading their own language was fantastic. What I’m...

If not me, then who?

As a new Christian I picked up the notion somewhere that I was supposed to be on the hunt for people to save. Those close to me at the time noted the change in my life but were not interested in it for themselves. Why couldn’t I pull a “woman at the well”...

Attention, Grandparents!

I’ve heard it said that in the grand scheme of things being a grandparent is far more fun than being a parent—spoil them rotten, then send them home. How perfect is that? I also realize that some grandparents are doing double duty as they fill the role of raising...

Just In Case

My uncle had a great idea but I know it wasn’t unique to him. He carried coupon books from fast food restaurants—just in case. From the Great Depression generation, he came to California with his family when times were tough, and as he got older, he wanted to help...