So I’m messing with photos on my iPad and listening to “The Avocado War“ episode of ROTTEN on Netflix. My attention is suddenly drawn completely away from my iPad when I hear the phrase geopolitical...
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Unlike our most recently appointed Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, I don’t like beer. This isn’t usually a problem. If beer is the only alcohol available, I drink soda and become...
The TV commercial. So I’m watching TV, and one of those lawyer commercials come on. You know the ones: “If you or a loved one took X medication and then got Y side effect, you may be...
Did you know? There’s an app that puts power lines in your landscape photos. Where I live, it’s provided by Appalachian Power – ApCo. Thanks, ApCo, for providing this valuable...
So I’m in Target walking through the home furnishing department and wander down the kids’ bedroom aisle and this label catches my eye. Do you see it? In an informal group on Facebook, I...
Reflexive conversation. People ask and answer a lot of questions out of habit. I call this “reflexive conversation” because given the question, the answer is assumed. These types of...
Bunions & squished-up toes. I have bunions on both feet. These cause my toes to get squished together when I wear shoes. Going barefoot is not an ideal solution in the winter. Since squished-up...
In the South, the extraneous “at”. I love regional variations in language. Being from Virginia, I’m most familiar with the alternate uses and abuses of language in the south. I use quite a few...
I noticed them before I knew what they were called – “unpaired words”: words without opposites. In most cases, these words do have opposites; it’s just that those opposites aren’t considered...