It’s been said before, but the words you say in anger are the same words that are remembered long after your anger is gone.
Posts Tagged ‘Words’
Advice Worth Repeating
September 20, 2022Sorry For Your Loss
September 9, 2022I always want to say the perfect thing when someone’s mother dies, but there are no perfect words.
It’s Actually A Remarkably Good Question
October 8, 2021“I’m feeling off-kilter today,” L’s Mother announced yesterday. “Which now that I say that, I realize I know what that means, but not where the word comes from. What is a kilter, and what does “off-kilter” really mean?”
“Well, you see,” I answered with a chuckle. “When a Scotsman really, really likes you . . .”
To Her Credit, She Realized What She Had Just Done Even Before I Could Say “Really?”
November 2, 2018Last night while talking with Lala we were both struggling to come up with the right term for something when she looked at me and said, “Why can’t English be more like German where you can just take two words and mash them together like some sort of . . . uberword.”
Words Aren’t The Answer To Everything
November 17, 2015Someone asked me the other day if I cared about current events at all since I talk about them so rarely.
The simple answer to that is while I don’t care about every event some would have me care about, I care about far more than I ever talk about.
Sometimes there’s simply nothing I want to say.
Today I Experienced Both
October 27, 2015In the spirit of made-up words like “hangry,” I’m introducing a new word into my personal vocabulary: “Rushtrated,” the feeling of frustration born from being rushed.
Edit: As was pointed out within minutes of me posting this, the potential applications of this word go far beyond just family outings, so I’ve deleted that part of the definition.