Confessions of ignorance

 I originally wrote this slightly odd piece as an online magazine submission. They didn't take it--I wasn't surprised. Even when I w...

Happy Memorial Day. I've been working on a longer more complicated post in an effort to revive this blog, but as I find happens when I a...

“For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which  will  not  be  charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.” That is...

 This one came to me in the form a crossword puzzle clue: "ancient Greek robot." It was recent, so maybe some of you have come acr...

 I put the word "hackneyed" on my long backlist of words to look into in April 2021, so it seems high time to bring it out of the ...

 When I started this post, I wasn't thinking of a word for "a short and striking phrase used in advertising." I was thinking o...

Photo by Howard Arlander   So what is it, exactly? With Congress in tension over two bills on infrastructure, one being on the traditional k...