I’m old enough to ignore the latest trends in piercing sites, heel heights and iPhone model numbers. Not that I cared that much when I was younger. But one thing I figured I’d always know is the latest words, or more likely, the latest meanings people give old words. And I thought I did know [...]
I was running low on things to worry about when The New York Times came through with a string of articles about the perils of plastic. The first informed me that the bottles, bags and jars we put into recycling bins because they’re labeled recyclable might not be recycled after all. Many end up in [...]
Mom always said gray hair was nature’s way of softening our features as we age. Then again, Mom was a bottle blonde. I was around 18 when my first gray hair appeared. I say gray only because everyone else does. This hair could have come from Santa’s beard. Had it had the gentle, natural wave [...]
I was reading The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes when it occurred to me that if you want to be a great writer, you’ve got to be screwed up. From this amusing collection I learned that Edgar Allan Poe’s antics included marrying his 13-year-old cousin. Eugene O’Neill once married a decidedly better catch. She [...]