Okay, here's the deal. When did people become "that" instead of "who?" I hear this on the radio on the TV ( and shouldn't news reporters know better )? and unless my memory is wrong, have even read it in places. Why? How hard is it to remember that people require a "who"? And here's another--myself instead of me. My boss did this all this time and it drove me crazy. Are we so afraid to be in the spotlight that we have to say, "So-and-so and myself did such-and-so?"
First of all, Happy Birthday to Alexander H., born on Nevis January 11, 1757. To begin, I will post a quote of his that feels utterly relevant. "...a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that ... those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." ~~The Federalist Papers Books2Read Amazon Barnes and Noble I tunes Scribed Kobo Now to the less fraught subject, the trials of a fluffy kitty... Here is the aforesaid "Fluffy Kitty" the day she came to us, a rescue baby, a bitten-up kitten who had just been to the vet for an abscess from a bite to be drained. My husband and I have learned a lot about her over the years, by observation and inference. Kimi is the onl...