Sassafras Mama

There's an old joke about Congress which compares lawmaking to the production of sausage and argues of both that it's best not to se...

This month's vocabulary lesson isn't so much a word as it is an idea.  And, as the snow and ice season begins to embrace us, it'...

Those of you who have been forced to spend time in my company know that I like cool temperatures.  This is especially true come the winter, ...

I suspect that I don't have to write a single thing to explain what the phrase fuck-knuckle means.  Because, come on, fuck-knuckle?  How...

This month's vocabulary with T isn't a single word, it's a phrase.  It's a fitting choice for this month because I first hea...

It wouldn't feel right to end the month without a little vocabulary from T to make July complete.  This month's word is one of the f...

Since January, I've written a monthly feature of T's words, some of which are made up . Others are words she uses in her own charmin...

Strictly speaking, this month's vocabulary with T features a word that is not unique to her.  Ramshackle was an already established dict...

It was pretty easy to settle on sharky as this month's vocabulary lesson, if only because the current political landscape so easily lend...

So far, the Vocabulary with T series has explained jimmy-jangled and coo-coo le crazy .  This month's new vocabulary word is one that p...

Last month, in my effort to enrich our national vocabulary, I reported on T's  use of the word jimmy-jangled .  Fittingly, this month...

When T and I were first getting to know one another, she asked me if I liked to make up words.  In fact, I do, and I offered up a few words ...