Friday’s newsletter, “Ampersanding,” started with this collage that had an ampersand stuck in the middle of it.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and voila: “The ampersand [&] originated as the ligature of the letters et — Latin for ‘and.’”

Seemed as good of a way as any to start a newsletter, since the structure of the Friday newsletter is basically a collage: this and that.

The next book might wind up with an ampersand in the title. But it’s too early to tell…