A life in words

  • Quote: Old Truths

    Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends—honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What…

  • Katinka Kristina Kristiansen, et alii

    So, on my account at werelate.org I’ve uploaded my family history information, namely the GEDCOM data that my dad gave me a few years ago. WeRelate is a cool site. It’s basically Wikipedia for genealogy. In fact, it’s built on the same underlying MediaWiki software that Wikipedia uses. The idea of WeRelate, as with any…

  • Come to the Shakespeare Reading!

    I’m hereby invoking the massive online presence that is joshhansen.net to spread the word about tomorrow’s MLK Day Shakespeare Reading for our Curiously Poetic Altoids poetry club. Here’s the announcement: Hi Altoid friends! Tomorrow is the blessed holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and in honor of its awesomeness we are going to have…