“I bet you don’t eat stuff like this!” This comment was made by my colleague as our paths crossed in the bakery section of our local grocery store. Within his hands, located between an aluminum tray and a plastic lid, was a Danish-style pastry with cream cheese that looked delicious. Just a brief glance into …
Category: Health and Well-Being
Bean-Eatin’ Appointment
“You and me, Partner. We meet center of town, high noon.” As a fan of movies and television shows set in the wild west, I’ve heard some variation of this phrase thousands of times, but I must admit that the latest GEICO commercial caught me by surprise with its application to our modern culture that …
Meh
Okay…so-so…average…good…fair-to-middling…each of these synonyms, whichever you choose, expresses roughly the same idea, but what if there was a word that captured a deeper, truer meaning, especially when spoken? It’s simple for us to say “Okay” (we even have an emoji and hand signals), but the crisp syllables of those letters fail to express the same …