The birthday season among family and friends is finally drawing to a close. We had the last celebration last weekend. This time it was mine and a milestone at that. (I know, I know, I don’t look at day over… 30….) Here is the birthday girl getting ready to blow out the candles: Here are two [...]
My daughter and I have had more conversations about geese and gooses. She’s into a farm ‘thing’ so the topic comes up alot. But she simply cannot grasp that goose and geese are the exception to a grammatical rule. She just recently got a glimmer of understanding about plurals, and she doesn’t get that the goose/geese thing is an exception. [...]
There is a three-legged dog in my neighborhood. The dog’s owner explained the story behind the missing leg. The dog ran into the street in the path of an oncoming car and lost its leg in the accident. My daughter has been fascinated by the three-legged dog and fascinated by the story. She wants me to recount [...]
I’ve been trying to educate my daughter on the finer points of English grammar, but haven’t had much luck with it. Me: I notice you have several geese on your farm. Her: Those are gooses. Me: Ummmm, sweetie, this is a situation where things are different than you would think. You can have one goose, but you [...]
April and May are the high holidays for birthdays in my family. One follows after another in rapid succession. First, my niece and my sister kick-off the season with a shared birthday. Then its my dad’s best friend Eddie, shortly followed by Rada’s and my friend Frank, and right on the heels of that is [...]