From time to time, I’ve received comments and emails — not all favorable — about the posts that stray from “Travel” and “Trains” and wander off into “Other Things.” Sometimes I write about “Other Things” because there just isn’t enough stuff about travel or trains coming along to provide fodder for a daily post that’s…
As I skip around the internet looking at other blogs, I’m struck by the incredible variety … variety of content, variety of style and, in particular, variety in the quality of writing. Some is pretty good, but most, I’m afraid, is marginal at best and just awful at worst. Are kids taught grammar today? Do…
What follows are excerpts from a column that appeared recently in The Daily Texan, the campus newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin. It’s by Colin Kalmbacher, a senior and a journalism major. I took the train from Fort Worth to Austin on Monday. It wasn’t close to being on time (three hours behind…