2022

And this explains a lot.   “I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.” —Anonymous

Ventripotent.     Jiggle. 

I always crack up when Patrick Swayze breaks out in song in the movie Ghost, singing “Henry VIII, I am, I am.” Second verse. Same as the first. When it comes to the real Henry VIII, we all picture the fat king, sucking on an oversized turkey leg, yelling “Off with her head.” But, there

Apprehension. In some form or another, we’ve all had it. The word means different things, depending on where you are standing. From that good old dictionary:Apprehension.1. anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen2. understanding; grasp3. the action of arresting someone The next story from history contains all three. It was on this

I was thinking about young kid Jesus the other day. Jesus didn’t have a surname. Not really. His full name was “Yeshua Ben Yussuf,” which translates as “Jesus, son of Joseph.” However, back in the first century, surname’s weren’t really a thing, particularly not for carpenters. So, in modern terms, he would have been known

I don’t like when it happens. Not one bit. But every once in a great, great while, I turn into my evil twin. Maybe not evil, but definitely Crabby Appleton. Unexplained. It doesn’t happen much these days. Perhaps I’m getting older and mellowing with age. I’m always reminded of the old story, “The Strange Case

It is a machine. A machine that is capable of carrying out a complex series of actions. But it performs these actions automatically, according to how it has been programmed. The Robot. When you replace the word “machine” above with the word “body,” it describes humans. We are bodies capable of carrying out complex actions,

Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?                   Answer: Silence.