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My Filing Cabinet

Everybody has a place where they save scraps of writing important to them. This is one of my places. If you enjoy what's here, let me know; if not, get your own cabinet.

[DOC] = in Microsoft Word format.
[PDF] = Adobe's Portable Document File format.

my stuff

things I've written, newest first. Everything here is in draft form: constructive criticism is most welcome.

• Some notes about St. Barnabas.
• John Crerar is a personal hero of mine, and not just because his money led to my full-time job. Find out why.
• You can also read the Tribune's account of Crerar's memorial service, which I typed into HTML.
• History of the BL-BX LC classification, or "some BS about BS", which I wrote on a lark for robert. [DOC]
• An imperfect re-creation of a Boy Scout flyer about citizenship. This was one of my favorite flyers when I was a Scout. [DOC]
• photos of my dad: small and large.

random mumblings

links elsewhere

things others have written that I particularly like, which are appropriate to be on a public web page.

Michael Grassi wrote "The Gift" as a "Piece of my Mind" column for JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA v276 n11(18 Sep 1996):p.54]. (link via Ovid; won't work unless you are at the U of C).

"Do you read poetry?" asked C.S. Lewis. "George Herbert at his best is extremely nutritious." (On the Reading of Old Books)

• Longfellow's "The Ladder of St. Augustine." I don't have wings, and I don't soar. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I climb a little.
• "Love (III)" by George Herbert. Pretty much all of The Temple is worth reading, but this is my favorite.
• "On His Blindness" by Milton.