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• across the water. nine lamps

My good friend Rowan “won” yesterday’s suggestion raffle with the words, “across the water. nine lamps.” This got me thinking about Rowan more than anything else.

• what’s the cabbage patch?

A quick conversation with a friend.

• unique words

One of the wonderful things about language is its flexibility. Given a reasonably complex sentence, you can be fairly certain that this combination of words has never been written or spoken before. Of course, there are other times when rather than fairly, you can be absolutely certain that the sentence you are hearing

• hiking up mount gladwell

Have you ever read anything by Malcolm Gladwell?  He’s a writer for the New Yorker and has also written two best-selling books, Blink and The Tipping Point.  A few weeks ago, I walked into a local Barnes and Noble that had large pictures of him alongside words to the effect of, “Every so often, a

• taking your emotional temperature

Learning to feel your feelings on the morning commute.