Socially Acceptable Lies
“Stink!” “Aww, crud!” “Well, fudge.” You’ve heard them: Christian Cuss Words. The VeggieTale-approved, socially acceptable form of lying we all use and love, so as to show off our holiness and not...
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My daughter, a self-confessed word-lover like me, and I have a some word lists. One is for our favorite words: words that are beautiful to us in every way, meaning in the way they sound, in the...
View ArticleBore
Out of necessity, The powerful word grew, Inventing itself like an unchanging mundane god, out of a formless void, both a verb and noun, A relevant Force to be reckoned with. It pierced and drilled its...
View ArticleSchoolish Thoughts: On Vocabulary or, eh…whatev…
“In the beginning was the Word…” -John 1:1a “I am losing my mind, he thought, one word at a time.” -The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell “Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.” I wish it was Witty...
View ArticleWho’s Driving These Search Engines?
Many poor souls have blindly run into a brick wall and jumped aboard the Hogwarts Express of the Internet in good faith, searching for something they…needed (?) and for reasons no one can fathom, they...
View ArticleEricisms: The Ever-Expanding Eight-Year-Old Vocabulary
The boy’s inventing New Words: We started a new unit in science recently: geology. Eric is absolutely enthralled: there is an entire science devoted to rocks. He has abandoned his former goal of...
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