The magic of the Internet allows us to find thousands of websites repeating the same unsourced origin of an American idiom, making one think...

We live in loud, tumultuous times. A lot of what we do and think and say revolves around what we see and hear and believe and parrot on the ...

This is the link our son sent:  

Another of my language "tip's" done in the style of Dave Barry: Gall: Per Oxford Languages, a noun with two meanings: "Th...

Another of my language "tip's" done in the style of Dave Barry: Lo and behold: "Lo" is an archaic word meant to draw...

If you want to read the Internet stumbling over the definition of a word, look no further . A student used this word in an essay I'm gra...

For reasons unknown, we took our son's van to church today. Also for reasons unknown, I was consigned to the seat way in the back. To ge...

We live in a world where someone else's poor choices justify our own. It's not good enough to live a moral life, do good things, be ...

I should have posted this comic with my post of yesterday, but today it feels more fitting, as I work to get through things. Part of what ha...

So the fun thing was that this January and February, my typical seasonal depression was absent. I'm not sure I did anything different th...