August 2017

Trucks with Ladders

Admit it, some things in life spook us, like being behind trucks with ladders. ********** They’re everywhere, these pickups, their loose ladders bouncing about, deadly potential projectiles threatening with every bump to pierce your windshield and remove your head. Oh, the paranoia. Recently I’m driving down a two-lane highway at a pretty good clip. The …

Slang It to Me

The venerable, time-tested idioms and clichés are rusting out. They’re about to bite the dust. Acronyms and instagrams of verbal arcana now rule, the new Esperanto. I’ve dusted off and cobbled together a few old ones. They still tell it like it is. ********** We live in a culture of idiomatic clichés. We’re comfortable with …

Fitting In

  It’s easy to fit in…it takes courage to step out. ********** I’m reading La Rochefoucauld’s maxims. This one catches my interest: “In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought. In fact, one might say that society is entirely …