I am a daughter of the late Dr.Bill, (and mother of Gretel). I would like to thank all of you for the kind words you have written about my father. It means a lot to us, to read them.
I have been browsing in your forum, and have decided to remain as a member, sort of like the baby spider who stayed behind after Charlotte (E.B White's heroine) died and all the other baby spiders had drifted away on the breeze. I won't be able to visit as often as my father did, but I will participate. I like the international flavor of the forum, and have always enjoyed using good words.
In the family home where my father grew up, there was a massive dictionary which stood, open, on a black metal stand, in the front room. I remember that we were allowed to kneel on a chair and read from it when we weren't tall enough to see it otherwise. And my father read aloud to us from classic books which did not 'talk down' to children.
