Around Town

How did we ever survive??? This is certainly not new and many of you are already rolling your eyes and sighing to yourselves.

Walking can add minutes to your life My mother often claimed that I started walking AND talking at 7 months and haven’t slowed down with either undertaking since.

The English teacher in me keeps finding unique ways of dealing with construction of the English language and some different ways of looking at it.

(I run this every year around Valentine’s Day. It emphasizes a truth that is branded on my heart and I am pleased to share it with you.

(I run this every year around Valentine’s Day. It emphasizes a truth that is branded on my heart and I am pleased to share it with you.

I recently celebrated a birthday in the hospital undergoing rigorous therapy for a busted hip. Now I am well, but I can’t whiz through the entrance to airports (like I might be flying) So now, I am older but apparently no wise.The following story surfaced recently.

As a lifelong English teacher and coach of numerous academic bowl teams, I’m always on the lookout for proper English usage. We ran across this once while studying for an academic bowl and I have used it ever since.

(I run this every year around this time.

POINTS OF ENLIGHTMENT from some of the greatest minds of our times.Al McGuire: “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”Albert Einstein: “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”Ambrose Bierce: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans...

One of the more popular expressions knocked around by people in my age group (OLD!!) is “used to be.”That is certainly true of our mothers, past and present.