Written in stone?

The Folly of Vanishing Words: From Stone to the Ether and Beyond Long before humanity flirted with the ephemeral, it sought permanence. The Sumerians, arguably the architects of written language, saw fit to carve their transactions, laws, and chronicles into clay tablets. These tablets,tangible, weighty, and enduring,survived millennia, whispering the secrets of ancient commerce and … Read more

Please be patient because this story, (as long as it takes to tell), is worth the telling. Charm … and a brick. OK. New Year’s Eve was a bust and, feeling old and irrelevant in the company of so many youngsters celebrating the end of 2023 in my beloved local watering hole, I survived only … Read more