The Making of a Geek
I didn't have your usual childhood. A three year illness kept me from going to junior high, but it didn't keep me from learning. This essay chronicles my life as an autodidact and a self-made Geek.
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In Georgia's Fields
I am a fourth generation English major. Language is my liturgy and grammar my catechism. Sometimes I wonder if I could have been anything but what I am--a shameless bibliophile and a compulsive proofreader. My great-grandmother, Georgia Merrill Allen, began this matriarchal line, this addiction for the written word. . .
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"I'll Be Seeing You"
I am a traveler on a journey unknown. I followed a path that I never knew and only discovered the journey I had made after my traveling companion was dead. My grandfather was that companion. Sixty years separated us and eight years had bound us together, made us inseparable. We walked the path side by side. He walked with me through happiness; he walked with me through sorrow, and he walked with me through sickness and pain and fear. I realized that not only was he my companion, but I was his.
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