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Les Malois
A literary vacation in the summer of 2024 took us to Oxford, the Isle of Guernsey, St. Malo, and Paris. Among other reasons, St. Malo is famous as the setting for Anthony Doerr’s sumptuous book, All the Light We Cannot See. St. Malo made headlines at the end of World War II when it was Continue reading
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“Give me your tired, your poor. . .”
I have been thinking of this beautiful song a lot lately, here sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. My high school choir sang it and I’m sure many reading this post have sung it. The song was written by a Russian refugee, Irving Berlin, who understood so well the difficult path of the weary and Continue reading
Ernestly Speaking 