Here’s a hopeful, holiday story for you readers reader. Did you hear about the Jack Russell Terrier in this article?
A 91 year old neighbor delivering Christmas cookies slipped and fell in the snow, and although the snow berm hid her from view, the neighbor’s dog, Taz, had seen her from inside his house and [...]
noun:
One who pretends to knowledge or cleverness; a would-be wise person; a smart aleck.
Wiseacre comes from Middle Dutch wijssegger, “a soothsayer,” from Old High German wissago, alteration of wizago, “a prophet.”
We all know this word already (some of us being described as one…), but did you know that it comes from a word meaning “soothsayer”?? [...]
I’m doing a meme. I don’t usually do them, but I don’t usually get them, either….. But when a queen hits you with one, well, eventually you have to do it or someone might drag you to a dungeon or something. No? I’m doing it anyway, even though I must say [...]
Last year, I mentioned how our pooch was in love with certain fuzzy tree ornaments. A singing cow and dog, to be exact. They sing to her, and she moans and whines to them. True love.
This year, the moment after I opened the wrapping paper box to get my Elf on, the [...]
In addition to the tea I’ve been drinking, I love hot chocolate. Today, it’s rainy and breezy outside, so I am making an instant hot chocolate mix.
I got this recipe from Food Network star Alton Brown. It is short, easy and brilliant, with no nondairy crap or other garbarge you find in instant [...]
This time of year always has me drinking more and more. Tea, I’m talking about. Especially since our replacement Insta-hot is working great.
I recently succumbed (hey, 2 for $4!) to Celestial Seasonings holiday teas. I got these three (purposely avoiding the “sugarplum” one since it gagged me last year and then the stupid [...]
noun:
Superficial knowledge; a superficial show of learning.
Sciolism comes from Late Latin sciolus, “a smatterer,” from diminutive of Latin scius, “knowing,” from scire, “to know.” One who has only superficial knowledge is a sciolist.
This sounded so much better than saying I don’t really know much of anything….. Most importantly, now you know “smatterer” is [...]
