Following up on our discussion about the many meanings of the word regret, we share David Ray’s poem “Thanks, Robert Frost,” which addresses hope for the past as well as hope for the future. This poem was read with permission of...
Paul from Duluth, Minnesota, heard Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, quoting Boston Mayor Tom Menino, call a health-care law an alcatraz around his neck. The idiom is albatross around your neck, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the...