Does your family have a swear jar? Do you remember those? It is a jar, usually kept in the kitchen or some other common space; whenever a curse word is uttered in the house the perpetrator must put money into it, usually a quarter. It is a tool that some use to help control […]
Month: July 2019
HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA
After all these years we are still a great happy mess of conflicting impulses. Now more than ever. We are a polyglot nation. A hundred cultures all trying to act like one; sometimes failing spectacularly, but overall, I think we do it better than anyone. If you don’t watch the news, you would never […]