Simone Biles, Donald Trump, and you
The news hit the United States early this Tuesday that Simone Biles had withdrawn from the team gymnastics competition at the 2020 Olympics. We wondered why. “Was she injured,” we asked? As it turned out she was physically fine, but on the next day she also withdrew from the individual competition. By then we knew […]
Success by design
Have you ever been invited to something and you didn’t know what it was? And you went anyway? Most of us started getting invitations to things before we understood exactly what that meant. If I were a mentalist I could “get into your memory” and tell you that your first invitation was to… a birthday […]
Woke is Broke
Are you woke? Once upon a time it would have been “Are you awake,” but woke is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. It was added in June 2017, along with more than 600 other new words. (The OED regularly adds 500 – 1,000 words each quarter.) Here’s the OED definition: woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, […]