Betsy Whitt

Has anyone else noticed that not very many people eke things out any more? Has eking gone the way of “gee whiz” and “shucks”? It’s a point worth pondering.
Also, does anyone know when moot shifted from being the term for an assembly gathered for debate and became something irrelevant? Was […]

I’m safe, I’m home, I am in possession of one round-trip air ticket to anywhere in the lower 48 states in the next year, but (alas) I don’t have residency pictures to show you yet.
In truth, I found that I carried the camera around a lot and kept forgetting to actually get pictures. […]

I realized today that I’ve been so busy having fun at residency that I haven’t been posting updates of any kind.  
It’s fantastic here, as usual, getting together with this fantastic group of people. I can’t adequately describe it, so I won’t even really try in my current state of mild sleep deprivation. […]

Ok, it’s actually 14.5 hours to actual airplane liftoff, but we’re leaving the apartment in about 12 to get there so I can satisfy my airport paranoia by being there on time.  It’s not supposed to do anything funny weather-wise overnight, but this time of year you can never count on it.    
Despite my excitement, […]

I’m putting together my list of books to read for this upcoming school term, and I’ve come up against a bit of trouble. I know that some people out there have got to have ideas I haven’t considered, so I’m throwing this out to get a bit of help.
Here are my prime […]

Well I got rather a lot of things done yesterday, but I didn’t sit down and write.  Fortunately, the things I got done are allowing me to take another shot at the writing day idea today and hopefully get things done.   
In the meanwhile, I’ll give you a bit more Shiloh. It’s a well-documented […]