The True Definition

When you work through etymology, the true definition of a word matters. It took people years of debate, collaborative input and evaluation to figure it out. After all of this, they wrote a dictionary; others created encyclopedias – taking it Read More …

Even They Know

As young as some of the people working at Target checkout are, even they know you can’t just walk in there for two things… Of course, they may be older than we (or at least I) think they are. That Read More …

What Came First

An age old question…what came first?  There are other, far more relevant ways to end that question today than “the chicken or the egg” such as… The angst or the teenager? The peer pressure or the conformity? The stress or Read More …

Better But Not Perfect

According to my daughter, some pizza, when served cold, is sometimes better, but not perfect. Other times, it is best if it is cold. We had a long discussion about needing at least 3 conditions for one of them to Read More …

In Other News…

It is Monday and while you may be thinking of a number of momentous things that happened, or could have happened, or are maybe happening around the country…here is one thing you probably won’t hear in other news around the 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 …

Long. Slow. Blinks.

Sometimes you are so tired, there are these tiny, momentary pauses in your life. They happen like this: Long. Slow. Blinks. Then you wake up and you can’t believe that you missed something. The memories you thought would be so Read More …

Cyber Everyday

This year, we are not just seeing the usual post-Thanksgiving specials, like Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday online specials…it is literally becoming “cyber everyday” with more deals added, extended to Tuesday and beyond…pretty much all week long this week. Read More …

Really Old

We make the kids watch really old movies…it’s Friday Night Flicks here and we are forcing them to watch the 1985 teen comedy Better Off Dead. I mean, who doesn’t want to know exactly the right tone of voice to Read More …

Sweatshirt Weather

This isn’t so much about the changing weather as it is the apparent and perpetual classification (mostly by my children) that it is “sweatshirt weather“. Now, as you may recall, we do not have central air in our 130+ year Read More …