A while back, I was leafing through a personal journal. I found something I haven’t seen for quite a while. It was a single, torn out, title page from a paperback book that I had pressed and tucked away in the journal. I’ll let you know exactly what that page is and how it came into my ...

There is an expression that many of us use when someone complains about something. We want them to know that we understand and sympathize. Or maybe, we just want them to quit whining about something that all of us experience. Here’s an example of a couple of things that someone ...

 Have you ever wondered why the season autumn is often called fall?  Wonder no more.  Read the title to this column and you’ll learn what you may have already surmised.    “Fall of the leaves” is the phrase that was used in Old England to describe the time between summer and ...

OK, I do have a T-shirt which has the title of this column as the message on the shirt. And, I might have another T-shirt which says something like, “Sarcasm - Just One of the Many Free Services I Offer.” Both shirts were gifts from the same relatives. How in the world did they ever come to ...

Sometimes we say that something funny happened in our lives, when what we mean to say is that something was peculiar. It often makes sense to use the phrase “funny peculiar” to get our meaning across. It seems like my life,  and how I perceive my life,  is often full of “funny ...

Up until late last Saturday night, sobremesa has not been a word in my vocabulary. I just learned it lately, last Saturday night, when I happened upon a word list while on Facebook. The title of the list was, “30 Beautiful, But Forgotten Words We Should Start Using Again.” I was familiar ...