Month: November 2017

Every so often, a term comes up that I can fully embrace.  “Retro” is one of them.  In fact, I like my retro life.  I like my eleven-year-old car, with the dashboard clock that comes on and goes off with sporadic whimsy and the rear lift-gate that needs to be gently assisted as do I most of the time.  Oh, I know I should have traded it for something more fuel efficient and eco-friendly.  To me, it’s eco-friendly to replace the floor mats every eight to ten years and the registration fees are down to where I can almost pay them with pocket cash. Continue reading “The Best Parts of Life are usually Retro”

Naming people has always been a sacred tradition, meant to define them and particularly with small children to distinguish one from another.  We name our pets so we can call them at night to the delight of our neighbors.  Particularly with dogs, the longer the pedigree, the longer the name.  This year’s winner of the Westminster show is “Vermilion’s Sea Breeze”.   Let’s hope that old Sea Breeze was followed by a scooper or nobody’s going near that beach.  Continue reading “What’s In a Name?”

Have some buzzwords that cause you to roll your eyes when somebody says them?  I’m sure that everyone has words and phrases that they find running the gamut from mildly amusing to the wildly preposterous.  Often it’s just the overuse of some words and phrases that cause our blood pressure to spike. Here are some that have embedded themselves in the verbal culture, and it’s going to take some time and effort to snuff them out going forward.   Continue reading “Buzzwords that raise my hackles”