Qualification

QUALIFICATION, n.  Being a cousin of the president's tailor.

2008 Update:  A caveat on a promise, most often tacit.  A credential.

Quack

QUACK, n. A murderer without a license.

2008 Update: The campaign promise of an estimable duck.

The Unionville Chronicles

Eighth Canto

Canto VIII was impressively recorded by the multi-talented JavaJazz. Click on the Quena at right and enjoy. Thanks, JJ!

To read the written verse, click on John Henry (at left) but don't miss the recording.

Expostulation

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

2008 Update:  The contest for culpability and regret.

Envelope

ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.

2008 Update:  The portion of correspondence reliably addressed to the reader.  The envelope is largely and increasingly absent from modern communication as, consequently, are readers.

OK, yeah, a meme

Pansi tagged me to write a 6-word memoir, which is: Too many words spoil the plot.

MEMOIR, n.  A look back at life as it might have been lived looking forward.  A memoir can be distinguished from an autobiography in that an autobiographer has research assistants and the memoirist makes do with only a ghostwriter.

Enough

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Enough is as good as a feast — for that matter
Enougher's as good as a feast for the platter.
—Arbely C. Strunk

2008 Update: A unit of charity as measured by philanthropists.

Everlasting

EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.

2008 Update:  Monday, usually by 9AM.