My Great, Great, Grandfather Billups moved West to seek his fortune.
Never heard of him? Not surprising.
He wasn’t as famous as Cochise or Geronimo, though many consider him the equal of both as warrior, and perhaps better as a military strategist.
(Fiction)
Elijah had the new pump handle about in place when the arrow hit him just below his right knee.
It’s a mystifying business, this business of humor – deadly, too, comedians are always talking about, “killin’ their audience.
Did ever you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted hog,
A tall shanghai rooster, and an old yeller dog.
Birth, Growth, Fullness, Decay, Dissolution, Death; the inevitable progress of all things created -
including us.
The basic idea of neoteny is simple: infant characteristics are extended into adulthood.
What do they have in common? Neither itch nor impulse is generated by our will.
That sums up my Mom. She was always busy at something. She would have made a first-rate Executive Secretary.