Watch Your Language

You must watch your language. Not just swearing. Not just being impolite. Not just being short. Not just being curt. Not just being vague. Not just being lazy and resorting to slang. Not just being too polite to say what Read More …

Is Salty A Bad Thing

Combination post: Is salty a bad thing? It probably depends entirely on context. Salty in food: overly seasoned, with salt (pretty hard to get away from using the base word here) Salty in life: synonymous with bitter, but more specifically Read More …

Their Own Little World

Setting aside the controversy of the threats to the lives of bees, they live in their own little world – rather oblivious to us humans – but, for more reason than one, we need to pay attention to them. As Read More …

I’ll Try It

Taking great pictures of even the strangest things often make people decide, “I’ll try it.” Or, maybe it is placement, in a photograph, staged as an advertisement that gets us there… Blue (berry) milk Acai Quinoa Mushrooms Pomegranate Cotton Candy Read More …

Go On Say It

Go on say it, it just sounds better doesn’t it? We use vocabulary words and phrases that mean the same thing but just sound so much better. Manicure or Spa Treatment? Special of the Day or Chef’s Tasting Menu? Seltzer Read More …

Sort and Resort

Today it was sort and resort, books which we have and have bought, read, enjoyed. Or not. Fiction Non-fiction Historical fiction Biography Thriller Young Adult Romance Picture books Cult classics The Classics Summer reading list Book club picks Loaned two Read More …

Old-Timey

“Hey mom and dad, let’s watch one of those old-timey movies, you know, the ones you watched when you were a teenager.” Ugh. You know, when you had to go to the drive in because they didn’t have movie theaters Read More …