Year: 2015
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: hey, they’re not extinct :
Quite the contrary. The thesaurus ¹ is alive and well on bookshelves around the world. Sadly, the same can’t be said for Peter Roget, creator of this masterwork; he died (perished, croaked, kicked the bucket) in 1869. A compiler, sorter, and compulsive list maker, Roget titled the 1852 edition of his classic reference book Thesaurus of…
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: stop the presses :
At last check, something like 600,000 titles are published annually in the United States alone. That’s roughly 12,000 books a week; 1,600 a day. I can’t keep up with that. Can you keep up with that? Hell, speed-reader Evelyn Woods would need the CliffsNotes. We’re human, you know? No matter how hard we try, no…
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: the cold, harsh reality :
Say what you will about the holidays, they’re expensive and exhausting and fattening, but they’re a welcome distraction. See, the holidays keep us occupied, leaving time for little else. We plan and party and decorate, we hang our stockings and deck the halls and toast the New Year. Then, before we know it, poof, they’re…
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: here comes another one :
Help me out, I’m confused. Are we celebrating the New Year or are we welcoming the end of the old one? I’m never sure what I’m supposed to do. So, please, don’t say both, it has to be one or the other. In my book, there’s no question, really. I’m celebrating the end of 2014…
the whirly girl 