Now The Dictionary Is Speaking My Language

by Kevin Burton    At one of my newspaper stops I was introduced to readers as speaking “fluent Spanish” That wasn’t, and isn’t, quite true.    But I do speak some Spanish and it has done me some good over the years.    How much Spanish do I speak? I once described it as “enough …

Using Time Wisely, A Post-Kindergarten Lesson

by Kevin Burton    I started school in Bermuda. So I don’t know if this was a thing stateside.    But a box toward the bottom of my kindergarten and first grade report cards read: “Uses Time Wisely.”    Funny, I remember that, but I don’t recall what my teachers wrote in that box. I …