I’ve always loved George Lakoff’s work. I use his theory on metaphor to teach my writing classes at the university. Recently, he was interviewed on truthout.org. You must watch his video interview and read his guest post at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081507A.shtml. He talks about “progressive framing” in the 2008 presidential election as well as the irony of [...]

So, I’ve kindof gone underground for the past two months. There has been lots to do on the home front. We were out of town until July 10th, and when we returned, we had to orchestrate installing our landscaping. We purchased a new-construction home in Maple Grove last March (a suburb about 15 miles from [...]