2024

City vs. Country By Linda Stowe Back in the early 2000s I used to hang out with this guy Jim. Jim and I mostly went to plays and concerts but sometimes we went on tours of old buildings because we also shared an appreciation of architecture. Jim worked as a housing inspector for the City […]

I swear. Some words surprise me. I write about this often, I know. But it seems that the people who make up words and their definitions just get it wrong sometimes.  Some words are off. Take this one, for example. assail Assail is a verb.  It is pronounced like this: ə-ˈsāl According to the great minds

I wonder about our human brains.  How we think.It seems like some people’s brains work differently than others.  I’m no scientist, but I sure have noticed that difference between a big bunch of us. Regardless, the mind is a complicated place.  Take dreaming, for example.  Sometimes, I wake up from a dream and say, “What

Politics Is Local By Linda Stowe “All politics is local.” Anyone who follows politics with attention has heard this comment. I have heard it many times over the years, but I never really gave it much thought. Today I decided to learn more about it. The comment is attributed to former House Speaker Tip O’Neill.

I remember reading. From my earliest years of reading. I’m not sure can actually remember the moments.  Like, where I was when I sat with my first Dr. Seuss book on my lap, chortling out “One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.”  But. I remember the words.  The stories. The thoughts and the imaginings around

Scissors. They are one of the greatest inventions of all time.  I mean, where would our quaffs be without them?  How would we ever cut along the dotted line? And the game? What about the game?  If it were just “Rock, Paper,” — Paper would always win unchallenged.  There’d be no happy day for the

Call it what you will.An expression. A phrase.  A way of speech.The idiom. It seems that idioms and proverbs can be found in thousands of different cultures and languages all across our great big world. Here is the thing, though.  For example, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and may

August is here.What a summer it has been so far.  But in just a month, fall will be knocking on the door.And yet. The Dog Days are yet to come. That term has always scruffed me a bit.  It seems like it has a somewhat negative connotation attached to it.  The “dog days of summer”