A friend returned my copy of Ivanhoe last week. They had moved to another city and this little volume (about 4″ x 6″, 670 pages) had been packed away in one of their boxes for almost a year. It was funny how glad I was to see it again–I hadn’t been looking for it and didn’t […]

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When you study something intently, you sometimes lose sight of what made you want to study it. When readers begin paying attention to a book’s design, it is usually because the design is getting in the way. For better or worse, the words of the Bible have been studied and parsed and dissected to an extraordinary degree. […]

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As a parent teaching my kids about letters, it’s sometimes difficult to know which A to focus on.  What is the Platonic form of the lowercase A?  It may also be an occupational hazard that I want to tell them about serifs and italics and the difference between a two-story “a” and a one-story “a.”  And […]

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Emmeline, look at these deer! Bekah and I went walking around Incheon after getting settled at Derek and Ashley’s apartment. Our feet took us downtown, where a nice young woman told us that there was a large park near downtown. So we went. It was a park, Emmeline, but not a playground. We didn’t see […]

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