Let’s play Three Questions: New Year’s Edition. OK, I’ll go first. It will be fun, or else it won’t, but the questions are all about you, so you can’t get them wrong. Ready? Question 1: Who are you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What brings you joy? What are your passions? When do you…
Month: December 2025
Is Christmas Merry?
Why do we always tell each other to have a Merry Christmas? Oh, occasionally someone will tell me to have a blessed Christmas, but mostly it’s merry. I looked it up. Merry means jolly, gleeful, and festive. In England, it denotes being slightly drunk, as in, “You seem a bit merry, Old Chap.” The opposite…
Uber Guy Gets Uber Lost
Roberto, the Uber driver, cruised slowly up and down the avenue, searching for a nonexistent roadway to my house. With each pass, he became more frustrated. A street had to be there—his company supplied GPS said so. On his fourth pass, he spied me sprinting across the empty lot and waving my arms. “This happens…
Thesauruses at Twenty Paces
Words were heated as we thrashed out ideas for a title. Dueling thesauruses cut down one lousy suggestion after another. Is this study about a kingdom or cleansing? Is it directed toward people who are persecuted, oppressed, unclean, burdened, hopeless, or just plain confused? How much do I care? I have spent the last four…