Sentences with phrase «writing about his grandfather»

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Indeed, asidefrom Casey at the Bat (which his grandfather used to recite while milkingcows), he says, most attempts at baseball poetry are utterly lamentable.Marianne Moore was a fine poet who wrote about baseball with disastrousresults.

I wrote a sponsored post about my grandfather for Werther's Originals, and now I can't stop eating Werther's Originals today.

In her book Breaking the Silence, actress and comedian Mariette Hartley writes about the heartbreaking legacy for her family and millions of other families created by the advice of her maternal grandfather, John Watson, or «Big John» as she called him:

The prime minister wrote to the Saudi government to protest about the «extremely concerning» case of Karl Andree, the British grandfather who had been threatened with flogging for possession of alcohol.

«I will be on Fifth Ave. not as your honoree but as a humble Puerto Rican and grandfather who at 74 continues to be committed to helping raise awareness about the fiscal, health - care and human - rights crisis Puerto Rico is facing at this historic juncture,» López Rivera wrote in the piece.

Matthew will write an essay about his grandfather and use HyperStudio to illustrate the essay with drawings and photographs on a Web site.

She always does her own sketches — in pen and ink (her grandfather was a famous etcher), she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them.

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) In 1956, Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son — about his father, a pacifist preacher, and his grandfather, a minster who fought in the Civil War as an abolitionist.

[And as for any actual existential risk Saga Furs might face, I've also written about that before: Based on the company's ongoing earnings / dividends, the substantial gap between the current share price & book value (which I believe is fully realisable in a wind - down scenario), the likely implementation of transition periods / grandfathering clauses / a compensation regime / etc... I'd expect Saga Furs would turn out to be a decent investment regardless, even in such a (remote) scenario.]

This was noted decades ago by my academic grandfather, Victor Starr of MIT, who in fact even wrote a book about all of this entitled «Physics of Negative Viscosity Phenomena».

As one of the grandfathers of the environmental movement, Lester Brown is an original «face of climate change,» writing about population, food, and land issues in the early 1960s when he was at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Being from an Alberta farming background and growing up with my great grandfather's shotgun stored in my closet (unloaded of course), I thought I would write about the... [more]

Being from an Alberta farming background and growing up with my great grandfather's shotgun stored in my closet (unloaded of course), I thought I would write about the imminent demise of the Long Gun Registry.

Yesterday I read your guest post about the wooden pumpkins on Infarrantly Creative, and then clicked over to read the post you had written about tearing down your grandfather's house and salvaging the wood.

I have a picture my grandparents had hanging in their kitchen & a framed poem my grandfather wrote about that picture.