New Words, New Ideas

I love language. I love to read it, write it, study it, analyze it, and I love to watch it change and grow. Recently there’s been a mini-explosion of nouns made into verbs. Things like peopling and adulting. As in, “I just can’t adult today,” instead of the stodgier, “I can’t be an adult today.”…

Hold On to the Light

I went in a cave today. Those of you who know me are sitting there in either dismay or disbelief. I know. Me too. I am not a caver. In fact, caves pretty much embody all the things I hate most: cold, dark, wet, and muddy and feeling trapped. And ticks, which weren’t actually in…

Update/Remodel

Don't Panic! It's still me. I just decided that I needed to match my site more to my theme, something much more, well, Simple. I loved the old theme, but I'd had it quite some years and it's been retired. So this is me, updated, fresh, clean, and simple.