Keeping it Straight

Just one paragraph from the Master of Christmas Letters:

December 17, 1982

...A tooth less here, a cut or a cracked bone there---the health bulletins are still upbeat for us both. Now about my distaff partner. She remains active as ever in the American Ass'n of University Women, the Morgantown gadfly biting chauvinists local, state, and national. Rare the lagging legislator who hasn't experienced her sting (Bombarding evildoers with telegrams, phonecalls, and letters runs in the Grandview household, actually.). More benevolently, Mary works with the Morgantown Friends of the Library and the Philological Papers. Really, there's never a dull moment around here. (Parenthetically, let me note the use of the non-ambiguous "I", "we", as against "the Singers," etc. Keeping pronouns and nouns straight in Christmas letters written by one hand but referring to a whole clan can get complicated. It got to me; I surrendered.)

 
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